Day in review June 5, 2015

Friday, today, ended in a meeting. The day started with a meeting too. Everything in between was a mash of email maintenance and opportunity. By the end  of today, I realized that I will be working on four papers, if not five. It really makes me wish I was on the tenure clocka bit, becuae there is the possibility that these won’t count for me.

I doesn’t matter. I am taking the opportunities that are in front of me. Right now I feel as if I am saying “yes” to everything. Not sustainable in the long term, but good for now in the sense that I have little to lose. The latest, in just this afternoon, is the offer to be on a grant. My portion of the work would  be to set up and moderate the searches that supply their project with unbiased material, aligning them to be a “center of excellence.” I’ll have to run this up the food chain, but it sounds promising.

Part of this urge to say yes is job security. The other is that the projects are interesting and I never thought that I would have this kind of opportunity in my second year. It’s a good thing that I have been reading Julia Cameron again. Her work is, yet again, keeping me grounded. I am slowly feeling myself be renewed. I am not 100% carefree, but I am working in that direction.

I’m almost home. I caught an earlier express train, but even without that shortened time, I am gazing out the window not really focused on anything. And I have a full weekend ahead.