The Now: July 28, 2021

I'm sitting at the living room desk right now. It's weird. The Husband and I used to swap every month but, since I don't mind the smaller desk in the bedroom we both set up permanent shop. He needed a room with a door today, so we swapped. Now all my monitors are backwards, I'm working with a different keyboard and mouse, and the AC unit runs more often. None of this is bad - it just feels weird after being in the same space for so long.

​Plus, the office chair is taller and my feet don't touch the floor. The perils of being on the shorter side.

Here's what else has my attention.

WORK

• I made the first round of suggested edits on the University customer service initiative proposal. I'm going to see if a few more come in before I give it one final go over before submission to the faculty committee.
• In preparation for the fall semester, I am reviewing and editing all the existing content in our Library 101 course. It's a good thing I am doing this as I have already fixed several broken links and grammatical errors. Following the review, I will add some new content.
• Still reviewing the recorded sessions from the Northest OER Summit.
• I will be presenting at an IN-PERSON (!) conference in October. I created and submitted my travel forms. Fingers crossed everything goes through AND the conference decides to remain in-person. I've never been to Monterey, California.
• Doing a lot of learning, testing, and tweaking of CSS and HTML to get our new website to look just how I want. It's painstakingly slow but I think the results will be more than worth the effort. Our current website is in need of an overhaul and this project is going to result in just that. The last time I did this much hand coding was when I had a few Geocities webpages in middle and high school.
• Putting together slides and a script for OER video to share at our all faculty professional development.

PERSONAL

• Debated some fabric swatches and ordered a pull-out couch for our kiddos room. Once it's safe again (thanks, Delta) we'll be able to host overnight guests... when the couch arrives... some time in October... if the production chains hold...
• Cleaned up, weeded, and merged my Trello boards. It's easier to find things now and I was able to evaluate projects and set priorities.
• We started the process of putting together all the legal documents we should have now that we're parents. This has been on my mental list for far too long and I am excited to get the ball rolling.
• Tweaked my LinkedIn page. It's better now?
• Started watching the YouTube videos on the Career Contessa page. I like professional/personal development stuff like this. There's a nice crossover with my work and personal lives.

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