The Now: April 28, 2021

I try not to talk about the weather in all of my introductions, but it's so hard not to talk about the weather right now. Summer warmth arrived in DC yesterday. Today, we could even hit 90. Normally I bask in the heat (convinced I'm part cat), but not so much this year. The cicadas are coming...

Aside from anticipating the arrival of Brood X, here's what has my attention at the moment.

WORK

• Later today, I host the last session in our faculty webinar series. After I deal with the last logistics of this session, I will pivot to sending thank yous to our vendors and assessing the feedback. 
• I finally started writing the literature review section of my University customer service initiative proposal. It's the part I least want to write so I figured I should just get it over with. My goal is to finish the lit review by next week and the entire proposal by the end of July.
• My colleagues and I are working on the slides, notes, and conference proceedings for our presentation at LOEX in a few weeks. We might have had a little too much fun with one of the slides in our deck.
• I drafted the staff newsletter to go out next week. Just waiting for a little more content to come in before I give it an edit and hit send.
• At the end of last week, I submitted a proposal for a Core webinar. I received a quick acceptance so now I need to develop my slides and other materials. The webinar is scheduled for June 2.
• In order to organize myself and see where I stand with my colleagues, I drafted up a list of summer projects I want to work on individually and as a group. It's slightly unwieldly so I will likely need to cut back in a few areas. 

PERSONAL

• The last few nights, I started cleaning our bathroom floor grout. It's not hard, I'm using the hydrogen peroxide/baking soda method, but it's a little time consuming. Since we only have the one bathroom, I'm doing it in sections so that we can still use the bathroom. I should have it finished tonight!
• I scanned a pile of stuff I had hanging around. The pile included some of  important documents and our daughter's daycare artwork.
• I finished the reading list for this website. Huzzah! Last week, I just decided to power through while watching some shows.
• I hit week 6 of my 5k training app. Yesterday I ran for 20 minutes straight. That was supposed to be 2 miles, but I'm a bit slow so it was only 1.6. Better than nothing! I'm just happy I was able to run that far without stopping. 

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