8 posts tagged “getting shit done”

Ah, Thursdays...

Accomplished:

1. Taught the last 'real' session of the professional writing class that's been driving me nuts. The really awful kid didn't show up, which was just lovely, and things went generally well. All we have left is presentations next week. :)
2. My first-year writing course at The Community College also went very well.
3. Graded one full batch of Final Portfolios--all stunning, for the most part. Got lots of nice comments back from students about the class being awesome, about me being a good teacher. Super cool.
4. Final grades posted for that section--2 C-'s, a handful of Bs, and the rest, all well-deserved As. :) :) :)
5. Updated records for the rest of my classes.
6. Spent a lovely evening with the in-laws, who are down for SLP's graduation from college this weekend!!

It's been a perfectly lovely normal day.

I really am getting the hang of Thursdays. After almost a week of blissful, spring-break sloth, I've kind of kicked ass today.

To Accomplish Tonight:

1. Read/respond to the last few short assignments for my classes at My Institution, the ones emailed in at the last minute
2. Read/respond to the short assignments for my classes at The Community College
3. Update attendance for my classes at The Community College
4. Start the portfolios for my classes at The Community College
5. Finish the fucking laundry
6. 1 more load of dishes (sigh)

Not too shabby, if I do say so...

It's been a pretty good day so far:

Accomplished:

1. Finally reclaimed the bedroom from the chaos produced by throwing everything in a closet at the last minute before Stepmom's birthday party two weeks ago
2. Moved the bedroom furniture around. Hoping the new arrangement cuts down on the trail of dirty clothes I seem to leave everywhere I go
3. 2 loads of dishes (sigh--yet another trail I leave around the house)
4. 2 loads of laundry (cleaning up the trail from #2)
5. Cleaned the bathroom
6. Straightened up the public rooms
7. Cleaned the catboxes
8. Caught up the emails from students, etc.
9. Spent some time with SLP and cats
10. Posted up here, earlier
11. Found some of the references I need for the seder for this year

To Accomplish Tonight:

1. Read/respond to the last few short assignments for my classes at My Institution, the ones emailed in at the last minute
2. Read/respond to the short assignments for my classes at The Community College
3. Update attendance for my classes at The Community College
4. Start the portfolios for my classes at The Community College
5. Finish the fucking laundry
6. 1 more load of dishes (sigh)
   

To Accomplish Tomorrow:

1. Finish the portfolios for my classes at The Community College
2. Run a few errands
3. Work at My Bar
4. Bring my W2s home from My Bar
5. Make a list for Saturday
   

Well, I'm as done as I'm gonna get today, and I'm going the hell to bed.

House, in this order:

1. Finish the laundry. This means dealing with the dryer, which may or may not have taken a shit two days ago. (The dryer is fine, thank god, and the laundry's about half done.) [The dryer is less fine. It may be dying a slow death. Slow is better than fast, though.]
   
2. Clean the downstairs bathroom.
3. Clean the upstairs bathroom.
4. Make the office look like it's in some kind of order. (I'm thinking I might just close the doors and hang a curtain, if I can find something that won't look tacky.)
   
5. Empty all the trash cans.
6. Dust and clear cobwebs.
   
7. Do the downstairs floors.
8. Take the trash down.
9. Find, put together, and arrange the occasional tables.
10. Bring up chairs from downstairs, clean, set up.
11. Bring up card table, the nice one, the wedding gift.
    
12. Move the dining room table, and the family room furniture.
13. Set up the buffet, with that warming tray thing and the rest of the platters.
14. Sweep the porch and entryway.
15. Go buy the flowers and store 'em in the laundry room. Close the door, so the cats don't eat 'em!
    

Work, in this order:

1. Sort out the three assignments from Research-Writing that need graded. Had to do this to get the office started.
   
2. Unit 1 Portfolios from Freshman Comp (Getting started now.)
   
3. Unit 1 Portfolios from Professional Writing.
4. Research Writing assignments

I'm starting to add to the list, as quickly as I cross things off. Frickin' frackin' fuck.

House, in this order:

1. Finish the laundry. This means dealing with the dryer, which may or may not have taken a shit two days ago. (The dryer is fine, thank god, and the laundry's about half done.)
   
2. Clean the downstairs bathroom.
3. Clean the upstairs bathroom.
4. Make the office look like it's in some kind of order. (I'm thinking I might just close the doors and hang a curtain, if I can find something that won't look tacky.)
   
5. Empty all the trash cans.
6. Dust and clear cobwebs.
   
7. Do the downstairs floors.
8. Take the trash down.
9. Find, put together, and arrange the occasional tables.
10. Bring up chairs from downstairs, clean, set up.
11. Bring up card table, the nice one, the wedding gift.
    
12. Move the dining room table, and the family room furniture.
13. Set up the buffet, with that warming tray thing and the rest of the platters.
14. Sweep the porch and entryway.
15. Go buy the flowers and store 'em in the laundry room. Close the door, so the cats don't eat 'em!
    

Work, in this order:

1. Sort out the three assignments from Research-Writing that need graded. Had to do this to get the office started.
   
2. Unit 1 Portfolios from Freshman Comp
3. Unit 1 Portfolios from Professional Writing.
4. Research Writing assignments

Ok, here's where I'm at now:

House, in this order:

1. Finish the laundry. This means dealing with the dryer, which may or may not have taken a shit two days ago. (The dryer is fine, thank god, and the laundry's about half done.)
   
2. Clean the downstairs bathroom.
3. Clean the upstairs bathroom.
4. Make the office look like it's in some kind of order.
   
5. Empty all the trash cans.
6. Dust and clear cobwebs.
   
7. Do the downstairs floors.
8. Take the trash down.
9. Find, put together, and arrange the occasional tables.
10. Move the dining room table, and the family room furniture.
11. Set up the buffet, with that warming tray thing and the rest of the platters.
12. Sweep the porch and entryway.

Work, in this order:

1. Sort out the three assignments from Research-Writing that need graded. Had to do this to get the office started.
   
2. Unit 1 Portfolios from Freshman Comp
3. Unit 1 Portfolios from Professional Writing.
4. Research Writing assignments

Ok, PTM is coming over to do homework at 6, and she's gonna stay till 11. So it's 11:05 now, which gives me 6 hours and 55 minutes to get the house ready, and hopefully start my work, and be ready to work like a demon when she gets here. (God bless PTM.)

This means I need to seriously prioritize:

House, in this order:

1. Finish the laundry. This means dealing with the dryer, which may or may not have taken a shit two days ago.
2. Clean the downstairs bathroom.
3. Clean the upstairs bathroom.
4. Make the office look like it's in some kind of order.
   
5. Empty all the trash cans.
6. Dust and clear cobwebs.
   
7. Do the downstairs floors.
8. Take the trash down.
9. Find, put together, and arrange the occasional tables.
10. Move the dining room table, and the family room furniture.
11. Set up the buffet, with that warming tray thing and the rest of the platters.
12. Sweep the porch and entryway.

Work, in this order:

1. Sort out the three assignments from Research-Writing that need graded.
2. Unit 1 Portfolios from Freshman Comp
3. Unit 1 Portfolios from Professional Writing.
4. Research Writing assignments

I'm woefully unmotivated right now, having been getting zero sleep lately, with all the work I've overplanned for myself. My plan is that putting all this up here for the world to see will help me get stuff done, so I can come back here later and copy this list into a new post, with a bunch of items struck through. Thanks fer being my superego today, neighbors.