Back to work

March has been erratic. I only spent 11 days in office. Five were in Maryland, and five more were on vacation. Now I’m at the end of March and I am getting ready for the end of the semester and preparing for more classes and workshops.

I had hoped to come back from vacation and all of this concentrated training with a sense of purpose and calm. I partially achieved each. I am more calm because I didn’t have endless work emails and things to try and get done. I have part of a sense of purpose in that I see work ahead of me. But I will set aside time this week to make sure that I get some planning out of the way and figure out what needs to get done with more specific goals and dates in mind. I think that will be more helpful.

In the mean time I need to cultivate the sense of calm in my day to day life. Today, I had meetings that were very stimulating and put all sorts of ideas in place. These meetings alway leave me with the feeling of “do all things” and I end up spinning in circles. I need to make sure I’m amking the right circles is all. There is rumor that our department is changing names. I don’t know yet if this is an attempt to shape the department. We need a department head, so that needs to be the deciding factor.

Anyway, I am dangerously close to rambling on and probably disclosing more than I should.