The Now: March 16, 2022

I am overjoyed to be getting more sunlight these days. Not so overjoyed at the reduction in sleep, but I'm trying to see how the bright side. (pun intended)

Here's what has my attention at the moment.

WORK

• My faculty portfolio is due on Friday. I am clocking in at hour seven of working on my narrative and finding all my attachments. At this point, I just have editing, organizing, and uploading left. I will be very happy to finish this task. (Then I get to serve on the review committee of my colleagues portfolios, but that is a worry for another week.)
• One of the consortial committees I'm on is working on developing an OER creation/adaption/adoption program. We're doing research on existing programs and trying to outline what we want our eventual program to look like. It's a lot of detailed work but I think it's going to result in some amazing stuff.
• My colleagues and I have a few more interview transcripts to wrangle for our project on faculty research assignment design. Once that's done, we can begin our analysis. We already know that we're going to have more questions we want to explore after this. Guess it's a good thing I work in academia.
• I am working on my presentation for Computers in Libraries at the end of the month. I have a pretty solid outline. Now I just need to put together slides and compile my resources.
• Last Friday I presented a session in our faculty webinar series on the ACRL Framework. We've got two sessions left. They've been engaging which is great, but that is a lot more emotionally exhausting than just a basic presentation. Still good though!
• I created and sent our monthly library newsletter. These are a lot of fun because I get to develop new content, share stuff that already exists, and dive in to pictures from our archives.

PERSONAL

• We got around to hanging the new mirror I bought for our living room. It looks really good. Now it has me rethinking the TV stand/media center situation.
• Did some baking this week - made our kiddo's favorite blueberry muffins and a loaf of soda bread from a bag mix. Now I have a bunch of extra buttermilk. I'll probably make rolls but I'm going to dive into my recipe archive first.
• Filled out my March Madness Bracket AND helped the kiddo fill out hers. What I do is make a slideshow that shows the two mascots of the teams next to one another. She then picks her favorite. She's got a play-in 16 seed team (who already lost) as the champion because their mascot was an actual doggie and not someone in a cartoon outfit.

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