First Published: 2023 June 1
Oh wow, it’s been over two weeks since my last post. I have no clue where the days go. I did write around 36000 words last month, so that’s somewhat exciting, even if almost none of them were for this blog.
My goals last month broke into a few categories. If I had checked up on them, I’m sure that it would have been useful to have them in that order. Instead, I just forgot that they existed until I began writing this post.
Rather than list the list again, I’ll just go through how I did on them.
Professional:
I did not manage to get running on my instrument this past month, which I at least now know why.1
Probably because of the above item’s issues, I did not finish building the other instrument.
I did finish TAing and I even got mostly positive reviews!
I prepared for a talk at a state wildlife area, which is apparently distinct from a state park. It went really well, and I had 53 people come! I should absolutely blog about that, so expect a post soon.
Personal:
I deep cleaned my home to at least my own standards.
I finished the book I didn’t enjoy and managed to at least stay on the writing schedule I needed for the one I am enjoying. I kept hoping to pull ahead but haven’t managed it yet.
I am now I think good enough at bagpipes to where I won’t embarrass myself next week. There are a shocking number of interactions I have had related to playing the pipes these past weeks, which also deserve a posting of their own.
I don’t think that I played particularly more music, but I don’t know if I dislike that too much.
I spent some time working on a song but not enough to break the wall of writer’s block. I should really just get back into writing poetry.2
Growth:
I have off and on been able to make more time for prayer.
I wrote none letters, though I did see friends in person!
Oof, I did not blog daily. I blogged half as much last month as in April.
I ran I think zero times.
I mostly stopped working out.
I actually did manage to go to bed generally early! My default wake time has shifted to be nearly six am now which is nice.
Looking forward at this month, I would like to:
Accomplishments/Finite Tasks3
Play bagpipes at a friend’s wedding
Write and give a talk at a conference
Get my instrument running
Growth
This might be a better way to frame my goals. In general, there are things that I want to have accomplished, and things I want to do.6 Hopefully I’ll be able to keep up with this more!
the short version is that the box I was given to output high voltage gives it negative not positive. The long version is that plus a bunch of other corrections.↩︎
well known as the gateway to songwriting↩︎
i.e. things that I will have done by the end of the month.↩︎
I’m not ashamed of it anymore which is nice↩︎
ideas from above/that I need to discuss in general are: my talk, piping interactions, book reviews of the books I’ve read recently, do versus have done↩︎
oh, shoot, that’s actually something I should blog about. I had a whole idea going about the difference between things I want to do, things I do, and things I want to have done. adding to list↩︎