So, the Spring break is over (I am on a train riding back as I am writing this), I feel zero rested, and there’s no break in sight now. (sigh) But we managed to move apartments all right, and my partner is effectively recovering after his surgery. The problem is that for the past few weeks I only supported myself with the idea that I would have this break in April, and now there’s nothing to support myself emotionally. The teaching load will decrease soon (I had two intensive classes) but I also have two conferences in May that I need to prepare for from scratch. And one more obligation that was due before that break but I asked for an extension but didn’t fully finish over the break.
Derailments
- just one this week: work_research_2bp - I was supposed to be working on that obligation but didn’t do enough
Changes to existing goals
- some of the goals were on pause for the first half of the semester - now these flat spots are ending and I am adding more to some of these goals, as I am becoming aware of the illusion that I will have time for everything now
New goals
- steps_if5k - for the monthly challenge; to enforce actually walking the average required number of steps (required by another goal) most of the days
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This was a very unproductive week, as the exhaustion of the past period doesn’t let me get back into the routine.
Derailments
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again on work_research_2bp — didn’t do enough for what I am expecting myself on the outside-of-teaching aspect of my work
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tbr_total — an acquaintance bought some books for herself but let me borrow them, as she doesn’t have the time to read them now… (as if I do…) but who am I to refuse books that I have been ogling myself, one of them something I deliberately asked her to borrow when she’s done.
Changes to existing goals
- added more breaks to some of the goals that were on pause since the beginning of the semester; it’s just not the time to bring those back into circulation yet
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I am very much in the mood for a spring cleaning of goals today (including some from the monthly challenge, which were fun to try out but were never intended to stay indefinitely).
- tbr_started_whittle - will end after acrasia horizon. It was a good way to whittle down the started portions of books originally, but lately the cutoff of 5 full books felt a bit artificial. I have enough constraints on my reading already. Might reuse in the whittling-down mode later.
- tbr_arcs_overwhelm - thought to end this as well, as it also turned into a scarecrow of a line not to cross, but decided to give it another try if I actually use it for whittling down things.
- photos-related goals have been on pause for a while; it’s not a priority now, but I am keeping them in the gallery to return to.
- french_hours that has been sitting in my gallery without new datapoints since 2020 goes to the archive.
- lipbalm_b4_sleep - ending this to potentially revive the next cold season; it’s been helpful for the wintertime/early springtime self-care, but for now, the burden of remembering to do this exactly before going to sleep (i.e. after I have posted the data point and closed the computer for the day) is higher than the usefulness.
- steps_if5k - was fun to try out for a month; did I actually walk extra steps thanks to this goal? - I totally did, walking around my apartment or the long corridor in the apartment building that connects all the staircases/entrances.
New goals:
- 2026may_drafts - a word count (URLMinder)–based goal to make sure I am producing the words on
paper screen that I am expected to have produced for some events soon.
UPD: also added breaks for the conference trip in slightly over a week.