The Now: May 10, 2023

I am very late to writing this post today because we were dealing with a sick kiddo. What was an in office day full of meetings quickly became a work from home day. I listened in on as many meetings as I could, but that's difficult when kiddo needs attention. 

When not dealing with a sick kiddo, this is what I've been working on:

1. Faculty Research Assignment Design: WE FINISHED CODING! Before I got the call that kiddo needed to be picked up, my colleagues and I wrapped up the last of our coding. We did our finally passes, reviewed the coded excerpts, and made sure everything we wanted to look at this round was done. Huzzah! We've got two presentations about our work coming up so that's we're focusing on next. Then we start on the analysis. 
2. Summer Prep (kinda): This week is the sweet spot between the fall semester and summer session. It was supposed to be four days where I could do all my prep for summer projects. Unfortunately, our University decided to hold all their presidential candidate interviews this week. So, all my summer prep is being squeezed in-between these WebEx events and, now, my sick kiddo. I'm making some headway but this may bleed into next week. 
3. Platform Reduction: One of my personal projects for this year is reducing the number of online platforms I use for life management. While I can't extricate myself from all of them, I'm finding ways to consolidate. I've decided that I want to use Trello only for my work stuff. Now, I'm migrating all my personal and professional stuff over to Evernote. I'm also going to migrate what I can from Google Drive to Evernote. Basically, I'm trying to make Evernote my homebase with only some items living on other platforms.

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