The Now: July 27, 2022

We were supposed to be joining friends to celebrate a birthday in Asheville, NC this weekend. That was relocated to New Orleans and we're not ready to take the kiddo on a plane. Since I already had remote work approved for next week, we decided to venture to my in laws a week early. Now, we'll be at their place for two weeks. We're both going to WFH one week and then take leave the next. The grandparents are kindly providing their own version of daycare. Kiddo is going to love it!

I am in the midst of menu planning and packing list checking. Long gone are the days of packing in an hour. Now I've got to make sure we've got everything for the kiddo (and enough snacks and battery power for a 7+ hour car trip). Thank goodness the Husband had the foresight to maintain a constant packing list. Makes things a little easier.

Here's what else I've got going on:

WORK

• Research Assignment Design: I am on my last round of individual coding. I'm also getting my code book in shape to share with the team. Then, we're going to meet and decide how we want to do our collaborative coding.
• Presentations and Publications: I am making notes for my webinar on how to improve your photography skills. I'll just brain dump everything into a document and organize it later.
• LibGuides: These are on pause for now. I can only do so many at one time. That said, I am promoting all of the new ones.
• Instruction: We are in the lull before the Fall semester overload starts.
• Administration: I made a list of things I want to tackle while I'm WFH next week. Hopefully, I can plow through some things while catching up on webinars.

PERSONAL

• Estate Planning: Nothing. 
• Email Newsletter: I decided to start using Substack's automated posting to Twitter. I also broke the 500 subscriber threshold today. I am very happy about that. I decided to use this as a promotional opportunity and shared the news in a few places.
• Home Projects: I built our new sofa table. It's very nice, but one shelf arrived with a bit of a dent in it. We're trying to flatten it out with heavy books. It's not bad enough to send back to Wayfair, but we figured this was worth a shot.
• Hobbies: I wanted to spend at least an hour of my short birthday vacation coloring, but I never did. Probably not going to get any time on this until we're back from our trip.

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