A monthly update on my work-on-my-postdoc-earlier-in-the-day goal.
During June, I used two weeks out of the (4 weeks total) “summer vacation” that I had allotted myself when I initially declared this goal. Spent them road-tripping Serbia with my husband.
Fun fact, I nearly derailed on the day after the vacation. I had no buffer, and since the goal is tagtime-pings-based… well, it was one of those days when pings seemed to simply refuse to come! Also had some errands in the morning, so couldn’t really use the best rewarded-per-ping hours of the day that day. I spent over 6 hours working that day just to get out of the red. while normally it should be around 4 on average. (Of course, of course, it all evens out across days… that’s the fun of having it tagtime-based, right?) But, out of desperation, I had to count the ping that came during dinner… because I literally caught myself in the process of wording some sentences for the draft I was working on that day when the ping came, while chewing! (Normally, I wouldn’t bother to count that - I usually silence the pings unless I am working on the project and waiting for pings.)
Aside from that, the goal has been running pretty well. Content-wise, too.
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