Derailments:
- None. Can this situation last?!
New goals:
- /murdersaswine - For reading Nap Lombard’s Murder’s a Swine! Usual reading goal rules.
- /kd1_magicbites - For rereading Ilona Andrews’ Magic Bites, with the usual reading goal rules. (kd_ is for Kate Daniels, a good identifier for the series.)
- /phoenixextravagant - This is a pilot reading goal! @dreev’s idea of beeminding the stuff you buy (e.g. beeminding to ensure you use the gym equipment you buy or read the books you order) clicked with my current method of making sure I read the books I buy by putting them somewhere inconvenient so the books stay fresh and relevant in my mind. This has been working great, but obviously only for physical books… but since I touch every goal on my Beeminder dashboard every day, this may be a way to make the idea work for ebooks too. The goal has a zero rate and will never be due – but I’ll interact it with it every day, keeping the book and my desire to read it firmly in the forefront of my mind, with a handy graph just ready to be started once I want to. This one’s for reading Yoon Ha Lee’s Phoenix Extravagant.
- /le3_afatalwaltz - This is also a pilot goal, this one for reading A Fatal Waltz by Tasha Alexander.
- /wag4_necropolis - And ditto, for the fourth Whyborne & Griffin book by Jordan L. Hawk. Three goals are enough for now, to dip into whether this plan proves annoying or wondrous. I’ll probably add a couple more over the course of the week.
Changes to existing goals:
- /lshtm_biostatistics - Got the break bumped on a little longer so it restarts on Sunday, matching my study plans and giving me a break after the grand finale of the lshtm_biology goal in the form of my assignment.
- /lshtm_biology - Finished and archived! So far I have a GPA of 5 – here’s hoping I haven’t wrecked that with this final assignment.
- /lshtm_statsprogress - Has been restarted! Same deal as before: I’ve pre-entered the datapoints on the date I want them completed to provide a roadmap. In this case I also have a set-in-stone end-date and some breaks (keeping Saturdays as my day off from everything, including studying, and adding a break for the day after I get vaccinated).
- /bsupport - I’ve added a break for my days off during my exams.
- A few goal names are going to be changed to make the goals sort together in my archive – mostly book series, so that “andonlytodeceive” is now “le1_andonlytodeceive”, and “apoisonedseason” is “le2_apoisonedseason”. I’ll probably keep the archived goals as they are, mostly, and only change things in an ongoing series, as and when I pick up the next book. I’m not sure if I like it, yet, and might change it back. It does make them less human-readable, so you can’t just assume the name of a book is the name of my goal for it and land on my goal page…
Notes:
- I’ve elected to keep my breaks for my exam period as minimal as possible, with just my main work goal getting a break. Everything else should be able to tick over.
- Ditto for my first vaccination; I know there’s a chance I’ll need a day or two off, but I’m banking on things not being that extreme.
- Because of my inbox zero goal, I have now finally booked my eye test and the extra OCT scan I need for macular disease screening, to get that email out of my snoozed folder. Yay! Thanks, Beeminder.