January

Overall

How’s this month been? I’ve made progress on my work, but not as much as I want to. I’m doing more exercise, but not as much as I want to. In all, I guess things are going okay. Not great, but not bad either. Everything is still possible. For February, I think it’s just a case of keep going, ramp up where possible.

Get a Great Job

So far:

• Get an appointment at the careers service to go over my CV – decided to get my CV written by Maureen McCann at MyPromotion. Currently have first draft.
  
• Send it out to tech people I know and respect and ask for feedback – have some feedback, waiting for more
  
• Ask people I’ve worked with to recommend me on LinkedIn (if they’re comfortable with that)
• Ask people for recommendations for companies to apply to, and referrals where possible (already started on this)

Next:

• Finalize resume
• Send to people who’ve shown an interest

Get a Paper Published

• Meet with supervisors to talk about what I have so far – Friday
  
• Incorporate suggestions
• Submit paper, and hope it gets accepted

Graduate

• Determine how much more work I need to do.
• Do it.

Create More Stuff

• Get together with other people, Processing Jam next week is a good start – was fun! Need to schedule another
• Make time for the things that are would-like-to rather than must do – not doing great at this.
  

Be in Better Shape

• Go back to kickboxing
• Work up to 3 times a week – at 2 plus gym twice. OK.
  
• Organize transport, and take ski instructor job
• Cross-country ski – need to go again
  
• On days I haven’t exercised, force myself to put on my swimsuit and walk to the pool before I go to bed (inspired by this post by Penelope Trunk) – failing miserably at this
  

Be More Balanced

• End my week on Friday, so I don’t frantically try and complete things over the weekend. – finding this really helpful.
• Ski at least one day at the weekend (during the season) – Going OK! Missed one.
• No working after dinner, use that time to stay current (blogs, twitter), exercise, play wii fit, spend time with friends, or relax. – liking this. Have ended up working maybe once in the evening, not much.

Make More Time for my Boyfriend

• Regular date night – can’t seem to coordinate schedule for this, but we are trying to spend an evening one day a week together
  
• Watch movies that he wants to see – watched The Royal Tenenbaums, enjoyed it.
  
• Hug him more – keep at this.