The Now: June 21, 2023

I had a dentist appointment this morning. It's never a pleasant way to start the day, but I do enjoy getting it out of the way early and off my to do list. I look forward to the day when AI can handle all of my adulting appointment logistics. I might use it then.

Here's what I'm working on:

1. Faculty Research Assignment Design: Thanks to the hard work of my research partner, we were able to look at smaller code co-occurrence tables. Looking how one code cluster overlapped with only one other code cluster made digesting the info so much easier. In our most recent meeting, we wrote down our ideas and where we think the data is taking us. I think we have the beginnings of a paper starting to coalesce in our heads. I'm also working on our literature review and, after some discussion, we found a way to rein things in. There's a lot out there and it would be impossible for us to review it all.
2. Outreach Prep: I sat down and wrote out my outreach calendar for the upcoming academic year. It includes dates, type of outreach, main idea, and targeted audience. It was a lot of work but, now that I've made it once, I can adapt it each year. There are still a few things I want to add and a lot of the content - especially later in the year - is TBD, but at least I have a scaffold to work from. 
3. ​Kiddo Wrangling: Between daycare closures for PD and a holiday plus it being Father's Day weekend, I've done a lot of kiddo entertaining. We visited the Zoo, got brunch, went to the National Gallery of Art, and got her first haircut. We also have access to Disney+ now. I managed to get the kiddo to take a break from Daniel Tiger. We introduced her to Winnie the Pooh and Finding Nemo. Nemo was a bit scary but she persevered. Now she loves watching Dory's Reef Cam - all the cute fish, none of the scary scenes.

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