In My New Office

A little claustrophobic with boxes, but I'm back in my (newly renovated) old office building in a different office.  This office is a bit smaller (but there are smaller still so I shouldn't complain) which provides me with a good excuse for getting rid of a bunch of stuff.

I am impatient to be unpacked;  I'm switching off between emptying boxes and doing regular work (class preparation, writing, correspondence).

Trying to Focus

It is so hard to focus on work during Summer Break, when all the other faculty are out playing in the sun.

That's being facetious.  To be honest, without structure I have a much harder time staying disciplined.  I guess that I mean external structure, since I could easily schedule how much I want to get done when.

I am trying to do class preparation and write.  I've hardly written anything, but at least I'm getting somewhere on having all of the first week of class stuff ready to go.

I do like teaching a lot more than writing.

Writing

I'm working on a talk that I'll give next month.  I started it then set it aside and then really started avoiding it.

Even this post is a way of avoiding working on it;  at least I've got an outline in development from the abstract that I submitted.

The transition into creating is hard to make but when I do get going it is hard to stop.