![]() After last Friday's Supreme Court decision, I find myself struggling to get through the day. It's really hard to motivate myself when I know that this country does not see me as a full citizen. Why should I keep going if I don't matter? But I'm taking each day one at a time. My emotions are still high but I'm trying to focus on the things I can do right now. Here's what has my focus. WORK
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![]() Utmost project in my life right now is the logistical acrobatics to get our toddler vaccinated. While DC said where vaccines would be and how many shots of each would be available, they didn't say anything else. Between Twitter searches and the daycare/mom communication network, we think we have it figured out. Fingers crossed our kiddo has her first shot today. Here's what else is going on. WORK
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![]() The AC in our office decided to take a vacation today. It currently feels like 96 outside. My colleague let me yoink her tower fan since she is working from home today. Thankfully, that makes my cubicle a tolerable temperature. I find it difficult to do deep work when I'm too warm. Also, I took tomorrow and Friday off to add to the long weekend. Ergo, nothing but admin and clean up today. Here's what I've been working on lately. WORK
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![]() Today, our reference team was supposed to hold an afternoon retreat to talk about our library instruction program. Unfortunately, two of our 5 person team our out because they are sick or had a COVID exposure. We postponed our event. I was really looking forward to this afternoon. It was going to be the first time we were all together since the pandemic started. Plus, I was excited to have us brain dump everything we want to do. Brain dumps are so cathartic and productive. Here's what has my attention: WORK
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![]() I'm finding that the productivity fatigue caused by the spring semester is still with me. In order to make any progress, I'm falling back on my tried and true technique of working on one focused project a day. Essentially, once the admin, email, and daily tasks are done, I only work on one thing. It's slower, but it gets me back on track. It helps that the reference desk has been quite quiet this summer. Here's what has my attention: WORK
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![]() One of my colleagues correctly said that it's really hard to care about anything related to work right now. She's right. Between current events and the sheer exhaustion from the spring semester, my ability to focus on deep work is limited. WORK
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![]() I found that these posts are getting to be a bit of a chore to write. I will still post weekly about what I'm working on, but the content will be a touch different. Instead of individual activities, I will discuss just the major projects and how they are going. We'll see how this goes for a bit. WORK
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![]() The Husband is away on his first work trip since the pandemic started. He sent photos from his travels for me to share with the kiddo. It's really weird to see wingtip images again. I am looking forward to getting back as close to normal as we can, but they really need to come through with vaccine approval for the under 6 set. I am following that news very closely. Here's what else has my attention: WORK
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![]() With everything that is going on in world, it has been really hard to get work done the past few days. To quote a colleague, we've truly hit "whatevs" mode. Here's what has captured my attention in the past week. WORK
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![]() The spring semester at my University is about to wrap up. Things are ending a bit later this year, so I have a shorter interim period in which to plan what I want to tackle over the summer. Normally, since things are slower, I try to add a few more complex projects to my list. I don't think I'm going to do that this summer. I've got carry over things from this year (and last summer to be honest) that I want off my list. Instead of doing new things, I'm declaring this the summer of clearing out as many Trello cards as possible. Here's what else has my attention. WORK
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