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  • Week in Brief

    • Finish paper and submit
    • Proctoring and Marking
    • Ski instructoring
    • Interview
    • Meeting RE resume
    • Career fair thing
    • Skiing – knee is hurting again :’(
    • Buy outfit for interview
    • Go to spa – why did I think I had time for this?!
    • Relax – read book
    • Have fun!
    • Work out lots – kickboxed twice
    • Get on top of email
    • Get on top of The List – made good progress on this, but not quite under control

    Also:

    • Went to “Being Human is Not Quantifiable”
    • Had blog post featured on Brazen Careerist
    • Queued up blog posts for most of next week
    • Spent some time by myself – boyf is away
    • Ordered new business cards (this time with my email address on them)

    For next week:

    • Ski instructing
    • Put together slides for talk for Thursday
    • Give talk
    • Interview (another)
    • Fill in forms for resume rewrite
    • Meeting RE resume
    • WISE Workshop event
    • Help G with website
    • Kickbox 3 times
    • Start Assignment 1 for Testing course
    • Read 9 papers
    • Finish workshop proposal

  • Week in Brief

    • Outline Paper
    • Write paper – sent draft to supervisors! Hopefully doesn’t need too much more work.
    • Ski instructing
    • Ski training – had a lesson when training was on :'(
    • Kickbox twice and Gym twice – gave up, hurt my back skiing and so overwhelmed by paper.
    • WISE Inspiring Women event
    • CATAWIT event
    • Marking
    • Deal with medical insurance – hahaha like this was going to happen!
    • Graph more people
    • Interview – through to next round!

    Also:

    • Got winter tyres on car
    • Cleared up the apartment
    • Went swimming
    • Blog post featured on Brazen Careerist
    • Cooked! Made soup and sesame chicken thing (minor setback after poisoned myself with sesame/peanut stuff)
    • Meeting about next project with comms people
    • Successfully drove to Carleton, arrived on time, without hysterics

    For next week (reading week so I can kick back a little – I need to!):

    • Finish paper and submit
    • Proctoring and Marking
    • Ski instructoring
    • Interview
    • Meeting RE resume
    • Career fair thing
    • Skiing
    • Buy outfit for interview
    • Go to spa
    • Relax – read book
    • Have fun!
    • Work out lots
    • Get on top of email
    • Get on top of The List

  • Week in Brief

    This week:

    • IBM Case Study Competition
    • Ski Instructing
    • Ski training (yay!) – long story, but didn’t happen :'(
    • Finish Science Teacher Talk
    • Write up proposal.
    • Write up two pages outlining work so far.
    • Meeting with supervisors. – really great meeting, very inspired afterwards. Working on paper, needs to be done for next week.
    • Marking.
    • Kickbox twice, gym twice – gym twice but only kickboxed once
    • More progress on “the pile” – have eliminated the pile! Finally!
    • Deal with medical insurance!!! – bought envelope… it’s a start

    Also:

    • Went to Teamcamp – must blog about this!
    • Got back my draft resume and sent it to some people for review.
    • ANNIHILATED THE PILE!!!!!
    • Put in my application for Extreme Blue, technical interview next week.
    • Featured post on Brazen Careerist (Rediscovering Balance).
    • Met a girl from the communications department, great chat – very excited about potential collaboration.
    • Had dinner and watched Julie and Julia with a friend, love that movie!

    For next week:

    • Outline Paper
    • Write paper
    • Ski instructing
    • Ski training
    • Kickbox twice
    • Gym twice
    • WISE Inspiring Women event
    • CATAWIT event
    • Marking
    • Deal with medical insurance
    • Graph more people
    • Interview

  • Week in Brief

    For this week:

    • First day as ski instructor!
    • Banff film fest.
    • Create more graphs.
    • More work incorporating papers into thesis.
    • Have an evening of “Cate-time”.
    • Meeting (will reveal details if it goes well!)
    • Write Science teacher talk – content written, just adding some examples.
    • Create abstract and register for Science teacher talk.
    • Create proposal for workshops – have all costings, just need to write up.
    • Processing Jam – postponed
    • Kickbox twice, gym twice.
    • Determine hypothesis – good idea what this is now, need to create 2 page document outlining what I’ve done and what I’m planning.
    • Try to disconnect and focus for an hour on one thing.
    • Deal with medical insurance.
    • Do homework for resume!
    • Meeting about resume.

    Also:

    • Prepped for this weekend’s competition
    • Got a hair cut

    For next week:

    • IBM Case Study Competition
    • Ski Instructing
    • Ski training (yay!)
    • Finish Science Teacher Talk
    • Write up proposal.
    • Write up two pages outlining work so far.
    • Meeting with supervisors.
    • Marking.
    • Kickbox twice, gym twice.
    • More progress on “the pile”
    • Deal with medical insurance!!!

  • Week in Brief

    For this week:

    • Write up Science teacher talk idea. – unsure what to talk about, met with prof to clarify. Now have plan, just need to write up.
    • Create bio and register for Science teacher talk. – delayed by above
    • Go skiing, sort out forms for ski instructor job (if not too late) – I start Sunday!
    • Put together proposal for workshops in the spring – waiting to hear back from someone at University
    • Give 15 Tools presentation – event went well!
    • Go to User Centered Design: A Cultural Challenge Talk.
    • Go to Canadian IP Law for dummies talk – had meeting and couldn’t make it.
    • Help friend with his website.
    • WISE table for clubs week – canceled.
    • Create questionnaire for release – need hypothesis, working that out
    • Fix applets and release. – see here.
    • Schedule Processing Jam – next Friday!
    • Go kickboxing twice.
    • Sort out medical insurance – organized receipts together
    • Continue incorporating papers into thesis – not as much as I’d hoped, but made some progress

    Also:

    • WISE Inspiring Women event
    • Watched movies and had some “Cate-time” (need more of this)
    • Had meeting about resume
    • Continued scheduling blog posts, think this is working well.

    Next week:

    • First day as ski instructor!
    • Banff film fest.
    • Create more graphs.
    • More work incorporating papers into thesis.
    • Have an evening of “Cate-time”.
    • Meeting (will reveal details if it goes well!)
    • Write Science teacher talk.
    • Create abstract and register for Science teacher talk.
    • Create proposal for workshops.
    • Processing Jam.
    • Kickbox twice, gym twice.
    • Determine hypothesis.
    • Try to disconnect and focus for an hour on one thing.
    • Deal with medical insurance.
    • Do homework for resume!
    • Meeting about resume.

  • Week in Brief

    For this week:

    • Exchange drivers license for Ontario one.
    • Sort out insurance.
    • Collect car.
    • Finish incorporating papers into thesis – about 1/3 of the way through with this.
    • Embed applets – made progress, demo applet embedded. Regular ones have small bug.
    • Decide which course to take.
    • Go kickboxing twice – sick, only made it once :'(
    • Fill out forms for ski instructor job.
    • Schedule another Processing jam – no firm date, need to coordinate with JP.
    • Find replacement for SASS.
    • Deal with medical insurance – didn’t start. Next week!
    • Code more on installation, finish data-structures if possible.
    • Create outline for Science teacher talk.
    • Create slides for 15 Tools.
    • Resume – See this post.

    Also:

    • Started scheduling blog-posts, one is being published at 0800h every day. Backed up to the middle of next week.
    • Had my first DGD! Apparently my students liked me. Yay!
    • Reviewed assignment 1 for TA course and made suggestions (0.25 of my TA is helping create assignments – awesome!)
    • Ate a bunch of live frogs.

    Next week:

    • Write up Science teacher talk idea.
    • Create bio and register for Science teacher talk.
    • Go skiing, sort out forms for ski instructor job (if not too late)
    • Put together proposal for workshops in the spring.
    • Give 15 Tools presentation
    • Go to User Centered Design: A Cultural Challenge Talk.
    • Go to Canadian IP Law for dummies talk.
    • Help friend with his website.
    • WISE table for clubs week.
    • Create questionnaire for release.
    • Fix applets and release.
    • Schedule Processing Jam
    • Go kickboxing twice.
    • Sort out medical insurance.
    • Continue incorporating papers into thesis.

    Eeep.

  • Week in Brief

    For this week:

    • Finish reading Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (Amazon)
    • Go x-country skiing – wiped out several times and had to be hauled off the ground… but Treena assured me I didn’t suck too badly!
    • Make a start on giant pile of papers – would have liked to have made bigger inroads, but made a start at least.
    • Investigate potential courses for this semester – narrowed it down to a choice of two.
    • WISE meeting – really happy, other people took on lots of stuff and are taking responsibility for our upcoming events.
    • Meet with supervisor – came up with a road-map of what should happen this semester
    • Go kickboxing – kinda hilarious, trainer came up behind me to say hello whilst I was doing snap kicks, I screamed and fell over! Reaction time still sharp, need to work on reaction itself, though.
    • Sort out transport situation – bought a car!

    Also:

    • Meeting RE coordinator position, have a presentation to work on for some Science teachers and a programming workshop for 16/17 year olds to write a proposal for.
    • Conference call with CU:WISE and IBM, we have something really great planned for the end of this month, and WISE’s funding woes are about to be stemmed – yay!
    • Processing Jam! Was awesome.
    • Went climbing
    • Read The Power of Less (Amazon)
    • Completed my seminar requirement at uOttawa, just 3 more at Carleton to go (yay! I hate seminar).
    • Managed not to work after dinner, apart from tonight. Although I didn’t eat dinner so maybe it doesn’t count? 🙂

    All in all it’s been a pretty good week, mostly running around sorting stuff out rather than achieving stuff, but I guess that’s typical for the first week back. The bad news has been that my scholarship is being reduced, which I’m a bit upset about, but I have a TA at least. And after trying for ages to get hold of SASS so to organize a talk on Time Management we’ve had to give up, as they never seem to be there. I feel this renders them unqualified to talk about time management, but maybe I’m just annoyed about how much time we’ve spent trying to arrange this to no avail!

    For next week:

    • Exchange drivers license for Ontario one.
    • Sort out insurance.
    • Collect car.
    • Finish incorporating papers into thesis.
    • Embed applets.
    • Decide which course to take.
    • Go kickboxing twice.
    • Fill out forms for ski instructor job.
    • Schedule another Processing workshop.
    • Find replacement for SASS.
    • Deal with medical insurance.
    • Code more on installation, finish data-structures if possible.
    • Create outline for Science teacher talk.
    • Create slides for 15 Tools and Tips.
    • Resume.

  • Week in Brief

    This week I had no goals! It’s been a nice break and a good time to move my weekly reviews to Fridays rather than Mondays. So not a huge amount got done:

    For next week:

  • Week in Brief

    Last week:

    • Holiday Science Lecture – revise slides, either no text or needs to be translated
    • Practice, Practice, Practice!
    • Go skiing
    • Spend minimal xmas with boyf and his parents – no tree, not many presents, as little fuss as possible.
    • Make Twitter landing page and turn off follower notifications.
    • Delete all Twitter follower notifications from email, and process the rest of it.
    • Unsubscribe from things. will need to keep unsubscribing but volume of mail reduced

    This week:

    No goals! It’s time for a break 🙂