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Sep. 4th, 2014 11:26 amNot feelin' it today. I'm trying to substitute caffeine for enthusiasm, but I'm not sure it's a good idea. I'm at work in the first place because I feel better than I did last night.
Yesterday was performance review day, and it was much less of a production than it ever was at HMS. Thank goodness. The upshot is that I am an extremely capable individual, and I should go to the ADEA meeting in February (which is in Boston this time, but they would have sent me even if it wasn't) to see what other schools are up to, and I should go to the Harvard career road map course in the spring (because naturally the fall session conflicts with the HSDM faculty development day I do all the logistics for).
The rest of yesterday was taken up with the curriculum task force meeting, the oral physiology course design meeting, lunch (finally) at 2:00, and various other things. I'm not sure how I managed to walk home last night, because by the time I got home, my last brain cell had escaped through my left ear and I was exhausted. Went to bed at 9:30, which was an hour later than I really wanted to, but I was enjoying watching Lily enjoy the lack of humidity.
I slept reasonably well, and reasonably long, but I'm just out of oomph today. And coming in to find that five of the 12 emails I accumulated overnight are Major Undertakings didn't help either. (Revise two articles for the JDE, revise one article that hasn't been submitted to the JCT yet, research and rent furniture for the faculty development day, and find 4 postdoc students to tutor Craniofacial & Neck Anatomy in October. None of the above are much fun.) The family joke about "with your shield or on it" is getting a lot of mileage this week from all sides; I guess it's one of those weeks over several states. At least today is Thursday, so the end is in sight, more or less.
I made a minor tactical error in scheduling my voice lessons this fall for every Sunday at 5:00. I may have to (finally) invest in a DVR, because otherwise I'm going to miss a lot of football games. Silly me. (Yes, I like football. But apparently I don't like it enough to think about it in August when asked whether I'd rather have voice lessons on Sundays at 3:00 or at 5:00.) Insert wry comment here about joining the 21st century, and the fact that a football game on a DVR will only take an hour to watch...
Yesterday was performance review day, and it was much less of a production than it ever was at HMS. Thank goodness. The upshot is that I am an extremely capable individual, and I should go to the ADEA meeting in February (which is in Boston this time, but they would have sent me even if it wasn't) to see what other schools are up to, and I should go to the Harvard career road map course in the spring (because naturally the fall session conflicts with the HSDM faculty development day I do all the logistics for).
The rest of yesterday was taken up with the curriculum task force meeting, the oral physiology course design meeting, lunch (finally) at 2:00, and various other things. I'm not sure how I managed to walk home last night, because by the time I got home, my last brain cell had escaped through my left ear and I was exhausted. Went to bed at 9:30, which was an hour later than I really wanted to, but I was enjoying watching Lily enjoy the lack of humidity.
I slept reasonably well, and reasonably long, but I'm just out of oomph today. And coming in to find that five of the 12 emails I accumulated overnight are Major Undertakings didn't help either. (Revise two articles for the JDE, revise one article that hasn't been submitted to the JCT yet, research and rent furniture for the faculty development day, and find 4 postdoc students to tutor Craniofacial & Neck Anatomy in October. None of the above are much fun.) The family joke about "with your shield or on it" is getting a lot of mileage this week from all sides; I guess it's one of those weeks over several states. At least today is Thursday, so the end is in sight, more or less.
I made a minor tactical error in scheduling my voice lessons this fall for every Sunday at 5:00. I may have to (finally) invest in a DVR, because otherwise I'm going to miss a lot of football games. Silly me. (Yes, I like football. But apparently I don't like it enough to think about it in August when asked whether I'd rather have voice lessons on Sundays at 3:00 or at 5:00.) Insert wry comment here about joining the 21st century, and the fact that a football game on a DVR will only take an hour to watch...
