The Now: June 15, 2022

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

• Research Assignment Design: Finished my first secondary coding pass. I am hopeful that the rest of the passes are as smooth as this one was. This is getting bumped up to the top of my list because we agreed to have our personal coding done by the end of July.
• Presentations: Still haven't tweaked my slides for my internal presentation next week. I'm not worried because it should only take me about an hour.
• LibGuides: I am getting feedback from some of our faculty on two of the new topic guides I made. I will incorporate the material they recommended soon. I also promoted our guides in the subscription newsletter I sent out today.
• Instruction: We held our first ever faculty retreat to discuss our library instruction program. While the afternoon was kind of all over the place, it did give us a lot of ideas for what we want the program to look like and how to move forward. We actually made sure to end by discussing tangible things we can start working on now. This proved to be a timely event because the head of our Gen Ed program discussed ways we can better incorporate our teaching into their program.
• Administration: Still picking away at the file renaming and organization in OneDrive.

PERSONAL

• Estate Planning: Still on my to do list, but no movement.
• Email Newsletter: Decided to change this bullet point to just talking about my newsletter instead of only the paid section. I did some cross-promotion and that got me over 50 new followers. I am also more actively promoting my work on my Twitter account. Next up, I plan on integrating more of this content into my LinkedIn.
• Home Projects: I gave myself tomorrow and Friday off. I am going to give our home a deep clean. That includes things like dusting baseboards and finally using  magic eraser to clear off the scuffs on our walls. 
• Hobbies: I'm trying to be more deliberate about taking time for hobbies I enjoy. Last week, I purposefully logged off my computer early (two nights in a row!) and put together a gorgeous owl puzzle a friend passed my way. I like accountability so I think if I add this as a thing to discuss I may find more time for my hobbies.
  

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