The Now: February 16, 2022

I am writing this post much later than usual because today was just one of those days. A project took longer than I thought it would, there was an unexpected meeting, one of the websites I use to make things was not working, and the toddler got all yelly. 

I am now watching the Olympics and enjoying a beer because I am very glad this day is almost over.

Here's what has my attention at the moment:

WORK

• I took two days off in the past week. That, somehow, meant my email decided to blow up a lot more than normally. I got four times as many messages than I normally get. I spent a lot of time triaging everything and only just caught up.
• We are deep in the interview section of our research project. Lots of interviews (and associated logistics), writing up transcripts, editing transcripts, and analyzing what we're learning. It's A LOT of work but it's energizing. We're talking to a great batch of folks and we think a lot of good will come out of this project.
• We've rolled into that time of the semester where we're doing a lot of library instruction. I lucked out and had a few repeat classes so I didn't need to start my materials from scratch, but everything needed at least some tweaking to reflect our new website.
  
• Speaking of the website, I am still converting pages over to the new template. I had hoped to finish this month but, with all the interview stuff, that is not going to happen. 

PERSONAL

• We got out of town this past weekend. It was just a short trip but that meant packing, driving, unpacking, learning the quirks of the house we stayed at, doing vacationy things, packing, driving home, and unpacking again. We did learn that the road trip aspect of travel is easier now that we got the kiddo her own tablet. I will never be above screen time bribery in the car again. It just makes the trip so much less stressful.
• I was caught up on my Feedly (and mostly caught up on my email) until we went out of town. Now I'm back to clearing out the backlog. At least it's smaller this time.

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