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summercomfort) wrote2012-10-02 08:26 pm
summercomfort) wrote2012-10-02 08:26 pm
Okay, a bit better now
Well, that was some much-needed stress relief. I'm glad Jono is out at the game store -- stress relief is a very private affair for me.
So now I'm feeling good enough to start making lists and repositioning myself mentally for October! I think part of it is that the last 6 weeks have been such do-or-die nose to the grindstone stuff that my brain couldn't quite fathom having a few hours to spare in the evening. In other words, this is the "getting sick" that happens after a tense period.
So instead of thinking in terms of stuff that I *have* to do, I need re-sort everything into things that I need to do as "maintenance", as well "might be nice if..." and actual creative projects.
Maintenance
- Keep working on Asian Studies and Mandarin 1 lesson planning. I have a meeting tomorrow afterschool to hammer out some Mandarin 1 stuff, and then I can sketch out the year and plug more things into my homebrew Mandarin 1 textbook. I need to spend some time tonight hammering out the outline for the rest of the quarter, and maybe the rest of the year.
- Keep grading. I'm in a grading lull for the time being (having 3 classes that are really small really helps!), but the key is that I need to stay on top of it, and not be lulled into a false sense of security.
- Keep World Religions on Low Priority. Right now, with my 2 new classes to prep for, I don't really have the brain space to do major improvements. So I just need to remind myself that now is not the time to take on a complete re-vamp of my teaching of the trickster figure.
- Keep doing payroll and processing checks for Chinese School. The big Chinese school things are done for September. And thankfully, mom has taken over my class, so I have an extra 5 hours free on Sundays (not to mention the extra 2 hours it take to wind up and wind down from it). My goal is to spend about 2 hours every Sunday working on Chinese School related stuff.
- Keep being mindful of my health. The last few days I've been in this funk, and as a result, have been willfully eating horribly unhealthy things. I think here moderation is the key. I usually overindulge as a result of strong emotions -- extreme joy, excitement, sadness, ennui, guilt, etc. Of course, the paradox here is that overindulgence causes guilt which causes more overindulgence.
Might be nice if I can...
- Do some final website tidying for Chinese School
- Do some prep work for APE (make signs, find some rack thingies to hold my comics, create some sort of vertical banner or display area)
- Fix up some of the problems in the China Comics print that dad found.
- Do some reading and research for my next comic idea
- Do some small sewing projects: make kanga dresses for me and Joanne, etc. (I think I can push that to November, though, since Jono will be gone for half of that time, which means I will probably spend every evening in front of the sewing machine marathoning some tv show.)
Major Creative Projects
- I want to do some more preliminary work for my next comic project -- at least get it to a point where I can ask people to read it and tell me what to fix, or whether I should just give up.
- I want to make a Halloween costume. I'll have to talk with MJ about maybe doing something together.
- I want to make a version 2.0 of my handbag -- Having used it for a year, there are lots of changes that I'd like to make to the design.
So now I'm feeling good enough to start making lists and repositioning myself mentally for October! I think part of it is that the last 6 weeks have been such do-or-die nose to the grindstone stuff that my brain couldn't quite fathom having a few hours to spare in the evening. In other words, this is the "getting sick" that happens after a tense period.
So instead of thinking in terms of stuff that I *have* to do, I need re-sort everything into things that I need to do as "maintenance", as well "might be nice if..." and actual creative projects.
Maintenance
- Keep working on Asian Studies and Mandarin 1 lesson planning. I have a meeting tomorrow afterschool to hammer out some Mandarin 1 stuff, and then I can sketch out the year and plug more things into my homebrew Mandarin 1 textbook. I need to spend some time tonight hammering out the outline for the rest of the quarter, and maybe the rest of the year.
- Keep grading. I'm in a grading lull for the time being (having 3 classes that are really small really helps!), but the key is that I need to stay on top of it, and not be lulled into a false sense of security.
- Keep World Religions on Low Priority. Right now, with my 2 new classes to prep for, I don't really have the brain space to do major improvements. So I just need to remind myself that now is not the time to take on a complete re-vamp of my teaching of the trickster figure.
- Keep doing payroll and processing checks for Chinese School. The big Chinese school things are done for September. And thankfully, mom has taken over my class, so I have an extra 5 hours free on Sundays (not to mention the extra 2 hours it take to wind up and wind down from it). My goal is to spend about 2 hours every Sunday working on Chinese School related stuff.
- Keep being mindful of my health. The last few days I've been in this funk, and as a result, have been willfully eating horribly unhealthy things. I think here moderation is the key. I usually overindulge as a result of strong emotions -- extreme joy, excitement, sadness, ennui, guilt, etc. Of course, the paradox here is that overindulgence causes guilt which causes more overindulgence.
Might be nice if I can...
- Do some final website tidying for Chinese School
- Do some prep work for APE (make signs, find some rack thingies to hold my comics, create some sort of vertical banner or display area)
- Fix up some of the problems in the China Comics print that dad found.
- Do some reading and research for my next comic idea
- Do some small sewing projects: make kanga dresses for me and Joanne, etc. (I think I can push that to November, though, since Jono will be gone for half of that time, which means I will probably spend every evening in front of the sewing machine marathoning some tv show.)
Major Creative Projects
- I want to do some more preliminary work for my next comic project -- at least get it to a point where I can ask people to read it and tell me what to fix, or whether I should just give up.
- I want to make a Halloween costume. I'll have to talk with MJ about maybe doing something together.
- I want to make a version 2.0 of my handbag -- Having used it for a year, there are lots of changes that I'd like to make to the design.