A Weird Week
It started out fine, if a little stressful. We rushed to checkout chromebooks to every student, just in case we needed to make the move to distance learning. It was a mad-dash day, but it went pretty well all things considered. I’m proud of that work, and the people who helped make the day a success. Then Wednesday hit and I didn’t feel right. Not bad, per se. Not necessarily sick, but I felt like I’d smoked a pack of cigarettes in my sleep. As the day wore on and the feeling didn’t abate, I made the decision to leave work and be safe. Two years into this pandemic I had my first COVID test on Thursday. I don’t have results yet, but after a few days of mild body aches, some tightness in my lungs, and stuffy/runny nose, and absolutely exhausted, I am feeling much improved today. I don’t…
Goals Summary 2022 – Wk #1
I can’t believe the first week of January is gone already. It feels like Christmas was forever ago, and yet this week felt so short? I really dislike how skewed my perception of time is in this pandemic age. It was a busy week back at work. We’re prepping for the inevitable switch back to distance learning, which means I have a lot on my plate right now. As the Librarian, it’s my job to basically plan and coordinate technology, textbook, and class materials distribution. And, when I get a moment to breathe, facilitate curbside pick-up of fun library books and record video book reviews for students. But, that’s the fun stuff that can’t happen until all the bigger, more tedious projects are complete. Speaking of projects, we’ve got some goals to discuss! Week #1 Goals Revise at least ten chapters of Tavi Finish The Woman in the Woods Spend four hours…
A Rant, Followed by Some Goals
Ok. All right. I know I said I was moving to my own website because I was sick of the Gutenberg Editor Block bullshit. I complained about WordPress.com, a lot. And I don’t take back ANY of those complaints. They’re valid. That being said, building my own site and coding it and trying to set up a newsletter has been so incredibly difficult. Gang, I am not “bad at computers” as my mother would say. I’m relatively technologically inclined. I’m a millennial who grew up coding her myspace page to include music and gifs before all of those things were simple. Setting up this newsletter sign up about gave me an aneurysm. It’s supposed to be easy, which it wasn’t, which is why it made me so incredibly frustrated. Don’t tell me it’s easy and then have the entire functionality of your plugin just NOT WORK. I’m looking at you…
A Mixed Success: The 2021 Story
All in all, 2021 was a slightly less raging trash-fire than 2020. I’m feeling a lot better at the end of this year than I did in December 2020, and I am so incredibly grateful for that. The intention for 2021 was COMMIT… which I then wrote on my whiteboard as “reCOMMIT” because my creative output was so inconsistent. I’m not sure how I feel about this. I don’t know if I really recommitted this year, but I feel committed as of this writing? So… a win? Mixed Success? All right. So what were these goals I was supposed to commit to? Revise Tavi I want to call this book DONE no later than October 1, 2021. That’s nine months to revise and rewrite and polish. I feel like that is plenty of time Read 52 books (1 writing craft book/quarter) Pretty straightforward. I want to read more this coming year…
Welcome to the Website!
This is the first post on the new website! If you’re new here, welcome! If you’re migrating from the old blog site, welcome back and thanks for following me into this new virtual space. I expect to have a few kinks and bugs to sort out (building this puppy wasn’t as easy as the internet would have you believe), so bear with me in the next few weeks. I can’t imagine customizing this site if I hadn’t already used WordPress for the last decade, but I’m really happy with how the site turned out. If you’re a long time reader, you know I like to update the look of the blog each year, and since I skipped last year I figured I ought to go big this year! I’ll still be posting with my usual erratic frequencies and being my usual weird self. Don’t worry. The content will not change,…