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30 March 2009

Getting things done with Delores This is a thread to motivate me... and you can motivate yourselves too!→[More:]
So I had a pretty slack week last week - got things done, but I've found writing my resume pretty hard. It's taken over 2 weeks now. I spent most of the time either meeting up with friends or playing games / killing time on the interwebs.

This week has been more productive... and I am starting this thread to remind myself how much I've gotten done.

What have you guys achieved?

I have
- almost finished my resume - I have one section left to tidy up
- Wrote to my old boss asking for a reference - found this hard as we were friends, but I haven't heard from her since I left.
- Done a presentation at Uni and gotten a lot of work done for my course
- found all the documents for my unemployment claim, and have filled in half the forms, have the other half to go.
- various ad-hoc tasks of varying degrees of difficulty
- confronted someone who was behaving very inappropriately and potentially causing trouble in my friendship with my best friend

You?

post by: jonathanstrange at: 21:34 | 6 comments

This week:

* I finished a task that had me stumped for the last seven weeks. Boss said wow!
* Now I can push that project forward at a much faster pace
* Later this week I am meeting a new prof. to collaborate on a pet project of mine. hopefully it will lead to some cool papers.

posted by special-k 30 March | 22:14

I caught up a lot of personal paperwork, mainly redundant Medicare forms, and got everything I need to finally do my taxes including the necessary disability forms.

By this time tomorrow, I should be able to head to Boston this weekend without anything hanging over my waiting for when I return.

posted by Ardiril 30 March | 22:30

holy shit, you all have done more this week than I've done in the past month. I put the S in Slacker.

Although, I did spend a huge chunk of yesterday making changes to a relative's business website. Said relative is incredibly nitpicky and is more naive about technology than they realize. It was extremely frustrating. But this should probably go in the shouting thread.

Tomorrow, besides working, my goal is to get a load of laundry done. Really.

posted by desjardins 30 March | 22:32

Ha! Got a webcam?

/silly

Well, I've actually gotten up on time, so that's good. Today

is sweeping up the floors
getting the trash out
putting the laundry away

That's bigger than it looks because there's a lot of all of it.

posted by lysdexic 31 March | 06:15

Well, I've steam-cleaned a bunch of carpet & discovered that the upholstery attachment that came with the cleaner is messy and essentially useless. I've slowly been tackling some long-overdue sorting & tossing in the basement, getting rid of old magazines (Southern Living from 1995? I think we can let that go) to make room for...um...new magazines, as well as books & such that have been cluttering up every flat surface. About to start the same job upstairs. Finally made an appointment for Little Al's checkup and shots, so he goes in for that today. Hoping to get a batch of apple ginger chutney done today or tomorrow, seeing as I bought the jars a couple of weeks ago, and will not let myself buy asparagus & jars for pickling until my first canning thing is done.

posted by elizard 31 March | 12:05

Also, congrats on making progress on your resume and unemployment paperwork, js. I know how hard it can be to get motivated right after leaving a job.

posted by elizard 31 March | 12:07

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