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12 April 2011

What do you want to accomplish this week? I'll go first.→[More:] Finish the methods and results sections of my paper, including finalizing all figures. Rewrite the discussion and introduction sections for a third time based on feedback from my advisor. Pin all my thesis committee members down to a particular date and time for my qualifying exam (perhaps the hardest task on this list).
On the list of chores -- file taxes, clean my bedroom up some.

How about you?

post by: peacheater at: 13:16 | 19 comments

*runs to bed, pulls covers over head*

posted by Specklet 12 April | 13:49

I have a friend visiting this weekend, so I'd really like to get the house straightened up by Friday evening. I have allergies from hell, though, and am having a hard time with even basic functioning.

posted by mudpuppie 12 April | 13:50

1) I'm hoping to continue to help my no good, lousy, rats-a-fratsin' back to settle down some more. It's been sore for about 4-5 weeks, and I'm getting a little tired of it. Chiro/physio efforts have not magically fixed ANYTHING. Jeez.

2) I'm also hoping to find a way out of this tremendous GRUMP I've found myself in. Life's pretty good, apart from some relatively minor stresses, I need to let this foulness GO.

3) And...I hope to continue to plan my road-trip vacation for this summer. I'd like to leave NOW. But...I shall wait, honest.

At the risk of sounding saucy...Perhaps I'll pull the covers OFF Specklet's head?

posted by richat 12 April | 13:52

Good god I really need to cross off everything on that to do list that's been on my desk for weeks. Stress stress stress.

posted by amro 12 April | 14:02

I need to get back in the groove regarding exercise. I also would like to finish the afghan I'm knitting for a wedding present. Then I have to figure out how to get it, and me, to the wedding in June.

posted by JanetLand 12 April | 14:03

Get my final papers written for LibAdmin and GovDocs...which I haven't started yet (except for doing the research).

Finish reading the last ACA book I have out so I can ship the current batch back to WSU (and it looks like they shipped out my next batch already, so hopefully they'll arrive soon so I have something to read on the train on Friday).

Get my extended hours scheduled straightened out with my boss and his boss and the payroll people so I can actually *start* them (which my boss says should happen next week).

Not completely collapse at the end of the week (since I added a gym session this week to my schedule, which is almost full).

posted by sperose 12 April | 14:07

Mine is simple: to have my ribs stop hurting from my puke-a-thon on Saturday (migraine, didn't used to vomit, guess it's a "thing" now).

Oh, and to not bail on my dentist appointment on Thursday. My dentist and hygienist are so good, but I still hate going there.

posted by deborah 12 April | 14:08

I would like the church council meeting on Thursday to not be canceled due to low attendance. So, whatever I can do to make that happen, I guess- calling around to get people in gear. I already chided Pastor for even suggesting the meeting could be canceled, since I know that makes people more likely to flake.

Continue to clean out my closet in anticipation of switching out the fall/winter for spring/summer.

Go to the grocery store and buy fruit for the rest of the week.

Go to bed at a reasonable hour instead of staying up late wound up about nothing. I succeeded last night.

Drink wine! Current drink of choice.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 12 April | 14:25

Getting out of the house would be good. So sick of this depression.

posted by Eideteker 12 April | 14:36

Not get fired before I sign my permanent contract.

posted by Senyar 12 April | 14:45

At the risk of sounding saucy...Perhaps I'll pull the covers OFF Specklet's head?

*pouts prettily, hair mussed*

Okay, fine, I'll look at my to-do list.

- schedule dinner with Samantha
- keep up with my core training, ow
- go pick up new reading glasses
- record ALL things in budget since first of the month
- work 40 hours
- re-wax coffee table (stupid beautiful antiques)
- fix car horn (must take off bumper, ugh)
- get Mom's birthday presents and send
- schedule dentist appointments for me and the boy
- catch up on 80 other things on to-do list
- CLEAN ALL THE THINGS
- make pizza and drink wine on Friday

posted by Specklet 12 April | 15:14

My, you all are so busy. Hugs to those of you feeling not so well.

My to-do list:

- submit my grad school application
- cook something with all that food in my fridge, before it goes bad.
- run all the miles
- buy champagne, drink it (contingent on running all the miles)

posted by punchtothehead 12 April | 15:51

Deal with the 15 e-mails that are cluttering up my inbox and need lots of attention to get rid of them without getting distracted by the 50 or so new ones that will come in today
Go to boot camp tonight
Go to runners' group Friday morning
Do another (shortish) training hike on Sunday
Wash the cars Saturday
Continue with the gardening work I've been neglecting on Saturday
Take the kids to Sea Wold Saturday
Tidy the place up a bit
Organise a quote for the driveway
Finalise all the other quotes to finish the house off
Lots of other stupid shit that I can't remember.

posted by dg 12 April | 16:42

I had a wisdom tooth yanked today, so my goals are modest:

1. Do not OD; I keep forgetting whether I took my Vicodin, so I'm making The Fella dole it out to me as allowed.

2. Spend at least the next 2 days on the sofa, doped up and watching movies.

3. Work my way up to solid food.

and anything else is a bonus. I cleared my schedule just in case something went pearshaped and I needed a longer recovery time, so my next commitment is the MeFi meet-up on sunday.

posted by Elsa 12 April | 17:01

1 Design an OLAP cube.

That's it.

posted by pompomtom 12 April | 21:11

My list says:

pet food store - the dogs are on fancy grain free food now, argh.
ingles - the supermarket
library
BB & B - bed bath & beyond, where I get the canisters for the seltzer machine
oil change
water filter
fish filter - need to change the one in the aquarium
call Memorycare - reschedule auntie's appointment again
taxes
airbeds - this is a paying catalog copywriting gig I need need need to get on
mow
garden
clean
vacuum
bathroom
water plants
bank

I only crossed off Ingles and library today. This is not a good start to a list that needs to be mostly done by Thursday evening so I can work all weekend and starting with library means I just want to stay in bed with my lovely pile of novels.

posted by mygothlaundry 12 April | 21:20

I am in a holding pattern due to finances, so I am doing a lot of planning. The good news, though, is that I do in fact have a *mission*.

posted by Ardiril 13 April | 05:26

Eid, me too. My 1st response to the question was "survive." I MUST do some taxes. from 2008. umm yeah, my life? falling apart. One gets used to it.

Also, possibly dancing at the New England Folk Festival (NEFFA).

posted by theora55 14 April | 11:08

Update: I didn't bail on going to the dentist, yay me!

posted by deborah 14 April | 13:26

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