#goalposting

I think i'm going to try to break this down into a couple different sections that i want to make sure i'm at least making a small amount of progress in each week

writing - break down chapters 3 & 4 of itsoh 2 into scene beats. write chapter 3. stretch goal write chapter 4.

chinese - attend mandarin group on wednesday night. get flashcard "total time studied" to 11d

job - get caught up on what's been going on while i've been out. finish the coupler analysis.

please learn how to have fun noodle - read spindle city. watch at lest 4 episodes of the prisoner. go to the MFA on friday to see the winslow homer exhibit.

fix some random shit that's been bugging you 5ever - order the pieces to repair your couch

writing - break down chapters 3 & 4 of itsoh 2 into scene beats. write chapter 3. stretch goal write chapter 4.

chinese - attend mandarin group on wednesday night. get flashcard "total time studied" to 11d

job - get caught up on what's been going on while i've been out. finish the coupler analysis.

please learn how to have fun noodle - read spindle city. watch at lest 4 episodes of the prisoner. go to the MFA on friday to see the winslow homer exhibit.

fix some random shit that's been bugging you 5ever - order the pieces to repair your couch

Overall a decent showing. There’s still a chance that I finish the writing goal before I go to bed but I’m not going to kill myself over it. The coupler analysis is “done” except I actually need new loads so I will have to wait until someone gives those to me, and then it’s just a matter of plopping them in, rerunning my model, finishing the writeup, and getting it peer reviewed. The model runs and doesn’t look terrible even with some dubious data in it so I’m calling that “done” for now.

Other things not on this list that i accomplished - got a bench for my kitchen. put a new screen protector on my ipad.

Goals next week

writing - finish itson 2 chapter 4. go to the library after work to write on tuesday and thursday.

chinese - attend mandarin group on wednesday night. get flashcard “total time studied” to 11d 5h

art - begin carving a linocut block

job - do a bolted joint analysis for the TF joints and get all the hardware sorted. probably maybe need to do an ansys run for those joints too so get that model put together and going. if there’s changes that the OOGL issue needs me to deal with then incorporate those.

learn to have fun - finish reading 4321. poll groupwatch group about new times for the watchparty and have 1st session of the year. hang out with zoe on sunday.

writing - Finish itsoh2 chapters 7 and 8. I’m putting 2 chapters on the list to encourage me to actually get one done today since i have the day off lol. go to the library after work on thursday.

chinese - do my chinese hw. attend mandarin group on wednesday.

art - no art goal this week.

job - joint model

fun things - either finish reading 4321 or the penguin book of the modern american short story. hang out with zoe on sunday.

fix random shit - i still haven’t fixed my couch. i need to just assign a time and do it. friday night i am fixing my fucking couch.

boy this was an atrocious week for actually accomplishing things i put on my goals list. some of this i have absolutely no excuse on lmfao. however i did write a short story and i made really good progress on itsoh2 ch8 so i guess maybe we'll take it

i think that having a list of goals for the week is *good* but i think i am sometimes overambitious and misjudge my amount of time and motivation when i write them, and also have difficulty assigning goals to timeslots in my days.

i think i'm going to change the format of this list slightly-- we're going to play around with this until it works lmao

this week's goals

top three priorities (must get all done) - chinese hw. attend mandarin group sunday. joint model.

next five priorities (pick three) - finish itsoh2 ch8. write short story (about the skeleton). get flashcard total time to 11d9h. fix couch. mandarin group wednesday.

remainders - finish reading one book. prep for oil painting. sketch at MFA. call the heater guy to see if he can stop my heater from making the scary noise (it's gotten way way worse)

my free time will be booked as follows

monday night - chinese hw @ library

tuesday night - mandarin class

wednesday night - mandarin group

thursday night - write at the library (skeleton story)

friday night - write at panera (skeleton story)

saturday - write at the library (itsoh2 ch8/9)

sunday - morning MFA. afternoon mandarin group. evening write at panera (itsoh2 ch9)

whatever. i will get back on the horse.

tomorrow i'll see if i can bike to work. this is a bit of a scary proposition b/c i haven't done it since the fall but there's no reason I shouldn't be able to do it. theoretically nothing has changed since the fall, with either me or the bike. it's just scary.

i should get back into writing weekly goals

goals this week. maybe best to break them out into the most important things to do every day? i have such limited time :(

do chinese hw monday night

chinese class tuesday

take the final accounting w/ my budget about how bad march has been for me (i've spent several thousand dollars more than i made. lol. this was such a bad month and it's still not over)

mandarin group wednesday

thursday get writing done

friday kult

saturday finish itsoh 2 ch11

last week's goals

writing - finish itsoh2 chapter 6. I’m not gonna push for more than that because i suspect it will be a difficult chapter. go write after work at the library on weds + thurs. possibly read through EHI and take notes while driving to business trip but I’m not gonna push it like I said

chinese - probably skipping mandarin group this week b/c of my business trip. get flashcard “total time studied” to 11d 8h

art - no goal this week 😔

job - business trip. get a model together for the new OOGL solution.

have fun - finish reading 4321. request a day off for week after next considering that i’m giving up my MLKJ day to put out fires at our vendor

fix random shit - i’m putting fix couch back on this list with the full awareness that it is probably not gonna happen

genuinely a terrible week for accomplishing goals. BUT writing the chapter was the most important and i got that done. and even though i didn't read 4321 I did read a different book. and i watched a movie (marty supreme) and went to a play (miss holmes) so whatever. it was ok in some respects. and a lot of the job stuff was, as they say in the business, Overcome By Events, so I don't have to deal with OOGL anymore (yippee!).

this week's goals

writing - Finish itsoh2 chapters 7 and 8. I'm putting 2 chapters on the list to encourage me to actually get one done today since i have the day off lol. go to the library after work on thursday.

chinese - do my chinese hw. attend mandarin group on wednesday.

art - no art goal this week.

job - joint model

fun things - either finish reading 4321 or the penguin book of the modern american short story. hang out with zoe on sunday.

last week's goals

writing - finish itsoh 2 chapter 4. go to the library after work to write on tuesday and thursday.

chinese - attend mandarin group on wednesday night. get flashcard “total time studied” to 11d 5h

art - begin carving a linocut block

job - do a bolted joint analysis for the TF joints and get all the hardware sorted. probably maybe need to do an ansys run for those joints too so get that model put together and going. if there’s changes that the OOGL issue needs me to deal with then incorporate those.

learn to have fun - finish reading 4321. poll groupwatch group about new times for the watchparty and have 1st session of the year. hang out with zoe on sunday.

fix random shit that’s been bugging you 5ever - repair couch. make a list of “random shit that’s been bugging me 5ever” so that i can pick things off that list to deal with when I need something to fill this slot in the list

pretty bad week for goals i fear. but i also think i was way too ambitious. but i did get itsoh2 chapters 4 AND 5 written so i think on some level it was a win. didn't do much else tho lol. to be fair to me on the job stuff i made progress on it and then the thing went crazy in a way that most definitely was not my problem (but is now lol)

next week's goals

writing - finish itsoh2 chapter 6. I'm not gonna push for more than that because i suspect it will be a difficult chapter. go write after work at the library on weds + thurs. possibly read through EHI and take notes while driving to business trip but I'm not gonna push it like I said

chinese - probably skipping mandarin group this week b/c of my business trip. get flashcard "total time studied" to 11d 8h

art - no goal this week 😔

job - business trip. get a model together for the new OOGL solution.

have fun - finish reading 4321. request a day off for week after next considering that i'm giving up my MLKJ day to put out fires at our vendor