Day in review June 16, 2015

Wednesday has become my day of sleep. I get to the middle of the week and my energy flags, productivity goes down, and basic tasks can take all day. On top of that, today my stomach didn’t like the rice noodles I tried to feed it for a snack. I haven’t felt ill, but something isn’t right.

Today work wrapped up a couple of projects I had been working on. Each was different aspects of the same proposal. The first part landed in mine and a colleague’s lap five weeks ago. We were tasked with updating a previous document on information seeking behaviors of clinician’s of all types. We then went back over the literature this past week, highlighting a specific aspect. The next part was a review of potential actiivties relating to data managment and big data initiatives. Both were satisfying but took al lot of time away from other things that I would like to get done this June.

I am somewhat disappointed that I haven’t been able to spend as much time as I would like on the meta-analysis search that I am doing. And the month is short because of the vacation time I am taking. I just sent myself a note to dig out the target dates for the project. They aren’t soon, but will come up quick enough.

The last thing I did was participate on the phone interview for the search that I am on. I was impressed by the candidate and I hope it turns out well. This is the second search and while it is an interesting process, I am looking forward to it being over.

My new activity sheet is going well. It is surprisingly easy to capture the little things that I think I was missing before. I was answering a lot of emails that were questions from people I have developed relationships with, but I hadn’t considered these reference questions because they weren’t in depth. The side effect of this new sheet is that I don’t use my weekly sheets as much except to keep a running list of unscheduled items. I really liked that sheet and system. Maybe I’m moving past it though.

My performance review is Friday. We will discuss next years goals and will have targets to map out. Before that meeting I need to make some comments and perhaps I will ask what others have responded as feedback. I’m not sure what the scope of that is supposed to be.

That is the sum of my day today. Unextraordinary, but that could be because it’s Wednesday.