My Week in Rear View

Lately I've been taking some time on Sunday nights to reflect on the past week and to get ready for the coming week.

Looking back has a different perspective than when I am in the moment.

Things resemble themselves but they are more like my hazy perception of them.

I decided to start posting some of that here. Feel free to ignore.

Monday

Things I did:
wrote a lecture on the effect of taxes on labor supply and savings, yoga

Things I thought:
feeling stronger in yoga, renewed spirit in general

Tuesday

Things I did:
gave a lecture on the Eurozone debt crisis, gave a lecture on the effect of taxes, facilitated 2 review sessions, mostly cleaned out my work email inbox

Wednesday

Things I did:
wrote a lecture on corporate taxes, reviewed some student draft work, ironing, yoga

Things I thought:
examined my approach/relationship to grading student work that is crappy, ways to give feedback to upset students, I don't always have to think through old tension, work on finding my center

Thursday

Things I did:
commuted in the snow, held extra office hours, gave a lecture on corporate taxes, gave 2 lectures on labor market theory, polished a lecture on consumer choice theory, had extended chats with colleagues, talked to my parents, had champagne with my husband for our anniversary

Things I thought:
beginners have questions about things, my role in many of my relationships is that of a mentor

Friday

Things I did:
several 2-minute tasks that ended up taking 25 minutes each, attended a meeting without a leader, went out for appetizers and the Muppet Movie

Things I thought:
pondering what to do in hijacked meetings, laugh more, my relationship to Project X.

Saturday

Things I did:
slept in (snowy morning), ironing, napped, caught up on the Tivo, looked through a folder of ideas, yoga, dinner out to celebrate our anniversary

Things I thought:
perceptions matter, perceptions guide actions, some guilt for not doing things from my to do list

Sunday

Things I did:
slept in, made brunch, went Christmas shopping, revised a lecture on globalization

Things I thought:
still working on my systems

Looking back on my week as a whole

It feels pretty balanced. I feel pretty good about it.

Looking ahead to this coming week

The last week of classes has a different energy. I want to try to stay centered and not get caught up in the franticness of it all.