Goals for this week were:

• Next Twitter Visualization (super excited about this)
• CA Project outline
• Read 5 papers
• Marking :’(
  
• Move ToDo Lists over to Remember The Milk
• Write more on thesis, get to the point where papers can be integrated
• Write survey for other project (more soon!)
• 3 blog posts

I also:

• Worked on next week’s WISE event
• Got a page of my website mostly done
• Annoyed prof by coding my assignment in Haskell
• Had to redo part of my assignment, not in Haskell (really annoyed about this)
• Played with Adobe’s Flex Builder 3
• Moved onto Adobe Flash builder 4
• Hated both of them, hence lack of new Viz (they are buggy with next to no error reporting. I’ve already crashed Flash builder twice).
• Applied for Curriculum Development again
• Submitted the abstract for a presentation I’m giving October 30th.

It’s really been a frustrating week with things coming up and needing to be done (like redoing the question in my assignment) and taking longer than expected (Flex/Flash Builder, marking – tried it on both Macs before I discovered that I had to use a Windows PC for the macros in the marking sheet to work – which meant Sunday at school). I’m loving Remember the Milk, though!

For this week:

• Write more on thesis
• Create slides for presentation
• CA Project plan (need to find out what this entails)
• WISE event
• Write survey for other project
• Keep working on Twitter Viz, maybe look for a new viz toolkit.

For this week my goals were:

• Clubs week for WISE
• Organize movie night (try and delegate)
• TA in French, don’t meltdown
• Incorporate giant pile of papers into Introduction
• Polish introduction such that I can send it to my supervisors
• Coding: phase 1 ended up coding something different, but I’ve made significant progress on it
• Assignment 1, Combinatorial Algorithms
• Finish reading Presentation Zen
• Read 6 papers from “the pile”
• Fix CSS on portfolio website
• 2 blog posts
• Get a hair cut (having a Bad Hair Life right now)

I also:

• Met with my core team from WISE, talked about managing expectations and outlined plans for two important events coming up.
• TA’d my first lab (on a Saturday, it was dull)
• Blogged more than usual.
• Got into Google Wave (it’s awesome!)
• Went swimming, for the first time since I wrecked my knee

Things are starting to settle down and I’m hoping next week I’ll run around less. Also, I’ve been setting completely unrealistic goals for the week so I’m going to have a go at being more realistic.

• Finish coding current mini-project
• Write more on thesis, get to the point where papers can be integrated
• Finish Combinatorial Algorithms assignment
• Meet with CA prof to talk about project
• Read 4 papers
• Read thesis – “Networking in Everyday Life”
• 2 blog posts
• Portfolio website – add all pages and finish home page
• Write overview for soon to be announced WISE project
• Write blog post for project

So last week I put up a list of things I hoped to get done last week. I did not achieve all of them, or anywhere near.

• WISE Speaker event
• WISE Coffee social (bake!)
• WISE Self-defense seminar – Questionable whether I can check this off, it was a disaster.
  
• Organize meeting for WISE, outline the plan for Women in Academia event – Again, debatable. Only 2 of the exec turned up.
  
• TA in French, don’t meltdown
• Incorporate giant pile of papers into Introduction
• Polish introduction such that I can send it to my supervisors
• Finish reading Presentation Zen (making progress, 1 chapter a day though)
• Finish reading 60 page chapter
• Read 4 more papers from “the pile”
• Fix CSS on portfolio website
• Finish CRM blogpost (already done!)
• One other blogpost from “the list”

I also:

• Ended up in hospital with my knee
• Had a BBQ with my friends and assorted medication from the hospital
• Saw the Trailer Park Boys movie – it was weird, but me going to it made my boyfriend happy
• Built some links within the university for WISE
• Attended a WISE event at Carleton (it’s amazing what they’ve achieved in a year and a half – but we’re catching up fast!)
• Took care of my neighbors cat (who happens to be a Web Design guru, and is willing to help me fix my CSS)

Two of our events for WISE went really well. One of them was a complete bust – I was horribly embarrassed and felt like a total failure. Going forward I have some lessons to learn: students don’t do stuff that’s not free, at the weekend, off campus on a Sunday afternoon, even if it could save their life (is one – slightly bitter – one I guess). We need to be more on top of registration procedures and for this kind of thing people really need to pay in advance. Also, I need to be more prepared to kill things. I was worried we wouldn’t have a good enough turnout, but I worry about that for every event. This one I should have taken care to be more certain about. I also need to get the exec on board to rejig things a bit, and clear up communications and event responsibilities.

For the coming week:

• Clubs week for WISE
• Organize movie night (try and delegate)
• TA in French, don’t meltdown
• Incorporate giant pile of papers into Introduction
• Polish introduction such that I can send it to my supervisors
• Coding: phase 1
• Assignment 1, Combinatorial Algorithms
• Finish reading Presentation Zen
• Read 6 papers from “the pile”
• Fix CSS on portfolio website
• 2 blog posts
• Get a hair cut (having a Bad Hair Life right now)