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What is Kat doing this week (everything)
Nov. 12th, 2024 12:05 pmI'm thinking a lot about structures and what are and aren't working for me. Spoiler! A lot of things aren't working for me and it sucks! Like, I am in extremely ADHD hell right now, where nothing I'm doing is actually bringing me joy or accomplishment but I can't actually figure out how to reach those things otherwise!
So I'm gradually trying to make things work better, but I'm also trying to deal with the fact that there are EIGHT HUNDRED THINGS in my life and whoops, I might somehow be deeply overcommitted but also not joyful about it? Gross!
This week:
Today I will finish teaching, and then hopefully desperately throw together my work for the rest of the week (except maybe not for Friday classes 2 and 4, that might be a different thing and I'm not sure when I'll get to it). Then I will have therapy at 4:30. Then I might wind up having a hastily rescheduled dance meeting that I was supposed to have tomorrow but probably can't. Even if I don't have that meeting, I should frantically prep some stuff so that when the meeting rolls around, I'm capable of having it. This is my light day this week.
Wednesday I will finish teaching and go to a department meeting, and then have an hour of free time because the other group is meeting so maybe that's when I'll try and get some frantic work done. Maybe I can use that time to create the performance task I promised the Geometry group I'd put together? It seems a noble goal. Then is Equity Team meeting, and then is some form of frantic dinner but also maybe that dance meeting that I'm supposed to have. And then I'm chaperoning a trip to the theatre with a bunch of nerd kids (at least a couple who I have as students). That'll be fun?
Thursday hahahhahahahhahahhaha I have school and then immediately after school I have a union bargaining team meeting and then immediately after that I have conferences (and thank _god_ the union meeting is going to have pizza) and immediately after *that* I have DnD and by immediately I mean conferences are going to end at 7 and DnD is going to start at 7 but I have to kick out any remaining parents, leave the school, and get home somehow so realistically I'm gonna make our group late which I refuse to feel guilty about because so is everyone else. And then late Thursday evening I'm gonna watch a couple episodes of Taskmaster with my favourite Canadian because the summer was real spotty and we got very behind because suddenly there is a LOT of English language Taskmaster to catch up on (this is the opposite of a problem), but it does mean I don't want to like, cancel.)
Friday I don't have anything after school until Tuesday shows up from Providence but then we're going to see Assassins at MIT with our friend Seramay (since I know he loves theatre and he and I saw Assassins last year and it was great). And then I have Tuesday for a few days, yay, but I do have to go to bells at least one of Saturday or Sunday because I should try and practice for the peal attempt. And also I need to find her a ticket for the Esh show on Saturday OR I need to find someone who wants my ticket (because it's sold out).
Sunday I don't have any plans except maybe bells and hang out with Tuesday somehow.
(And yeah, I need to figure out my passport situation --thanks Laura for the email reminder, please feel free for anyone to continue doing that-- which is not made easier by the big ol' pile of what gender marker to get on it which is a very horrible question that has no correct answer, because the two options are "comply in advance" or "abandon my safety".)
(And I need to get new glasses because mine are on their last legs. And I need to go to the dentist before covid numbers skyrocket again. And I need to hang up some blankets over my windows to try and make my room warmer. And there's almost certainly other things to do, and also at some point I ought to write some dance programs.)
The only way through is through, because while there never is enough time, at least it has the decency to only move the one direction, and at a fairly steady 1sec/sec at that.
But if you have structures that really work for you and your life, I'd love to hear about them, and maybe see if they are things I could adopt.
~Sor
MOOP!
So I'm gradually trying to make things work better, but I'm also trying to deal with the fact that there are EIGHT HUNDRED THINGS in my life and whoops, I might somehow be deeply overcommitted but also not joyful about it? Gross!
This week:
Today I will finish teaching, and then hopefully desperately throw together my work for the rest of the week (except maybe not for Friday classes 2 and 4, that might be a different thing and I'm not sure when I'll get to it). Then I will have therapy at 4:30. Then I might wind up having a hastily rescheduled dance meeting that I was supposed to have tomorrow but probably can't. Even if I don't have that meeting, I should frantically prep some stuff so that when the meeting rolls around, I'm capable of having it. This is my light day this week.
Wednesday I will finish teaching and go to a department meeting, and then have an hour of free time because the other group is meeting so maybe that's when I'll try and get some frantic work done. Maybe I can use that time to create the performance task I promised the Geometry group I'd put together? It seems a noble goal. Then is Equity Team meeting, and then is some form of frantic dinner but also maybe that dance meeting that I'm supposed to have. And then I'm chaperoning a trip to the theatre with a bunch of nerd kids (at least a couple who I have as students). That'll be fun?
Thursday hahahhahahahhahahhaha I have school and then immediately after school I have a union bargaining team meeting and then immediately after that I have conferences (and thank _god_ the union meeting is going to have pizza) and immediately after *that* I have DnD and by immediately I mean conferences are going to end at 7 and DnD is going to start at 7 but I have to kick out any remaining parents, leave the school, and get home somehow so realistically I'm gonna make our group late which I refuse to feel guilty about because so is everyone else. And then late Thursday evening I'm gonna watch a couple episodes of Taskmaster with my favourite Canadian because the summer was real spotty and we got very behind because suddenly there is a LOT of English language Taskmaster to catch up on (this is the opposite of a problem), but it does mean I don't want to like, cancel.)
Friday I don't have anything after school until Tuesday shows up from Providence but then we're going to see Assassins at MIT with our friend Seramay (since I know he loves theatre and he and I saw Assassins last year and it was great). And then I have Tuesday for a few days, yay, but I do have to go to bells at least one of Saturday or Sunday because I should try and practice for the peal attempt. And also I need to find her a ticket for the Esh show on Saturday OR I need to find someone who wants my ticket (because it's sold out).
Sunday I don't have any plans except maybe bells and hang out with Tuesday somehow.
(And yeah, I need to figure out my passport situation --thanks Laura for the email reminder, please feel free for anyone to continue doing that-- which is not made easier by the big ol' pile of what gender marker to get on it which is a very horrible question that has no correct answer, because the two options are "comply in advance" or "abandon my safety".)
(And I need to get new glasses because mine are on their last legs. And I need to go to the dentist before covid numbers skyrocket again. And I need to hang up some blankets over my windows to try and make my room warmer. And there's almost certainly other things to do, and also at some point I ought to write some dance programs.)
The only way through is through, because while there never is enough time, at least it has the decency to only move the one direction, and at a fairly steady 1sec/sec at that.
But if you have structures that really work for you and your life, I'd love to hear about them, and maybe see if they are things I could adopt.
~Sor
MOOP!