I am utter disbelief that Spring Break is just around the corner. How did that happen? At least I can spend that week working on my tenure portfolio for this year.

• We have now held three sessions in our Faculty Webinar Series and things are going really well. (You can watch the previous sessions here.) There are nine more sessions left in the series. I will continue to promote these sessions while also dealing with the logistics of confirming vendors, handling and sharing records, and sending out Certificates of Attendance.
• I'm still doing research on customer service as it relates to higher ed. Not gonna lie, I am trudging through this one. I would much rather be writing, but I know I need to include this material in a literature review section of the proposal.
• I've made a decent amount of progress putting together the reading list for this blog. I'm almost done with the list itself... then the time consuming part comes - adding links to everything.
• As a personal project, I am working on some journaling related to intuitive eating. I pulled the prompts from Pandora Paloma's book Intuitive Living. Doing this has been eye-opening and a little unsettling. 
• I am on the hunt for a new sofa console table. I want wood (preferably walnut toned) with two drawers and at least one shelf. Ideally, I want this beauty but at a much more affordable price. Sadly, everything I find that looks like this table is too short for what I need. 
• Fun side project - I am catching as many Pokémon as I can for PokémonGo Tour Kanto event. A few Pokémon I need are eluding me. Where are you Venonat?

Spring semester is lighter on the library instruction sessions. That gives me more time to work on other projects. Here are the things I am focusing on right now.

• We held the first session in our Faculty Webinar Series last week and it went great! (Interested? Watch the recording here.) Session two is tomorrow. After this week, the sessions will be vendor led. I am hopeful that the rest of this series goes well and we can start offering more webinars more regularly. This is one upside of all the work from home.
• My major project for the semester is writing up a University customer service initiative. This is a self-imposed project with a self-imposed deadline, but I think it is necessary and useful for our institution. Right now, I am in the reading, listening, and outlining stage. I hope to have the research for the literature review done in the next few weeks. I am the type to spend the bulk of my time on research, reading, and outlining thereby making the actual writing a breeze. If you've got any insights into customer service in higher education, I would be happy to hear from you.
• I'll be speaking at Computers in Libraries in March. I'm starting to outline and develop content for my presentation on productivity and remote leadership.
• I am a member of our condo's Green Committee. This week, I drafted our first newsletter to share with all residents and owners. It focuses on ways to save water while washing dishes. Pro Tip: Be lazy. Use the dishwasher. Dishwashers use FAR less water than hand washing.
• One part of my old blog that I miss is the loooooong reading list of every book I've read. I am in the process of recreating that list for my website. Eventually, I will have a page listing every book I read and each title will link out to Bookshop.org (or the publisher) in case you are interested in the title yourself.

Here are the projects that have my attention this week.
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• Putting together a reading list and learning resources guide for the African-American Read-In.
• Marketing and managing our upcoming Faculty Webinar Series. Each session will share information about a specific library database. If I get one, non-library attendee during the live sessions, I will be happy. I spent over three hours individually emailing all of our faculty this week. I did see a spike in registrants after that but it was A LOT of tiring work. At least I could use templates and listen to podcasts.
• Working through the archives of the Planet Money podcast. I had listened to most of this show before I removed it during the OMGIHAVEABABYNOW purge. I missed it, so I put it back. I'm a podcast completionist so I've listening and relistening to all the old episodes that are in my feed. Some of the episodes that really delight me will show up in the The Weekly Wrap on Sundays.
• One of my quarantine projects was digitizing mementos, photo albums, and journals. I have two journals and a stack of The Kid's new artwork left. Before I get to those final items, I'm editing some images from the last batch of bullet journal digitization. It's just cropping and adjustments but it takes a little while. At least I can do it while binging The Office.