finished a feature-complete draft of my dissertation. Now pending approval from my chair to schedule my oral defence
started rock climbing again after years. One session and I’m still sore days later, but it feels good
been getting daily exercise, mostly drumming, for about a month now
kept myself limited to 1 alcoholic drink maximum per outing. This week my friends and I went out twice, so this was my first week with more than one drink since Christmas
came out to some friends and it went well
Sites for improvement:
get back on a consistent sleep schedule
snap back to former life-work balance from before my dissertation writing binge
the constant productivity felt good, but I’d like to avoid these writing binges in the future to prevent burnout
Upcoming this week:
having some 1:1 conversations with grad students about unionizing
a ludicrous amount of prep work for academic job applications
Things I’m proud of:
Sites for improvement:
Upcoming this week: