I came back from the swamp hike and there were only two days left of the working week. And that was enough! And the first day, I stayed home. The cat nicked my office chair at 8:30, and didn’t leave it until 16:00.
My first big task was trawling through all my mails. There were loads of emails about the dissertation topics, and about some assignments of which the deadline is later this month. And I tried to collate the results from the foraminifera practical. And I should have submitted my MSc projects. I forgot! Oops. Did that the very next working day though.
I also started preparing for several batches of marking that would soon come in. That would be hitting me like a sledge hammer! Better to make sure I’m as prepared for it as I can.
I was also in two meetings. The first one ended up overrunning by 50%, in spite of my best attempts (I was chairing). The second one I could as well not have been in at all, and it wouldn’t have made a difference. Oh well!
The last thing was starting to get a spreadsheet together to start the dissertation topic allocation process. That is another big demanding task!
I was happy with my progress at the end of that very short working week. I hope I can get quite far with the allocation next week, before the big marking starts! Last year, this part of the year was quite trying…
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