Sound Writing Practices }{ AcWriMo 2014 }{ Week 1

This is my log for Academic Writing Month 2014.  You can read my guiding philosophy here and my opening statement for this year here.  This year I will post weekly reports with detailed day-by-day breakdowns of my work.  I will also be reposting my list of goals each week, annotated with the tasks that I got accomplished and how they measured up against my predictions.  All of this year’s weekly logs archived here.

DAILY LOG: WEEK 1

Nov. 3rd

Task 1.1 }{ 1.5 hours – job application

Task 8.1 }{ 2 hours – workgroup meeting

Task 11.1 }{ 1 hour – AcWriMo post

Task 10 }{ 2 hours – emails

Nov. 4th

Task 1.2 }{ 1 hour (10:22 – 11:15) – job application

11:15 – 12:15 baby break

Task 1.2 }{ 1 hour (12:15 – 1:15) – finish job application (extra 30 minutes because of data entry on application website)

Task 10 }{ 0.25 hour (1:30 – 1:45) – email to CASE regarding endorsement of film on silence

Task 10 }{ 0.75 hour (2:00 – 2:45) – emailing and CATDAWG check-in

Task 10 }{ 1 hour – emailing

Nov. 5th

Arrived home from school drop-offs at 9:30.  The baby fell asleep in the stroller earlier than usual, right as I was sending my five year-old through her kindergarten doors.  So I figured I’d head straight home instead of grabbing my ritual coffee on the way and get a half-hour jump on the day.  Just as I had put the home coffee on and was sitting down at my desk, the baby woke up.  I should be used to it by now, but I’m not.  It’s like coitus interruptus every single day, all day long.  Shifting psychology in the midst of frustration over work stress is really difficult, but I’m working on it.  So I gave in to the reality that it would now be at least an hour, probably longer, before I could start my work day, and settled into making breakfast for the two of us.  On the plus side, with nobody else in the apartment and the basement suite temporarily empty, I was able to crank my recently acquired limited white vinyl edition of 1349’s Massive Cauldron of Chaos at high volume.  The baby didn’t mind, as long as he wasn’t directly in the stereo field and knew I was close by.

Task 6.1 }{ 1 hour (11:30 – 12:30) – Baby is finally asleep, and after a bit of Facebook procrastination I hammered out a draft of my pitch for a series on the Sounding Out! blog.

Task 10 }{ 0.5 hour (1:00 – 1:30) – emailing

Task 6.1 }{ 1 hour (2:00 – 3:00) – finalizing SO! pitch, sent.

Task 10 }{ 0.5 hour (4:30 – 5:00) – emailing Norm and Susan

Nov. 6th

Sick baby kept me up from 2:30 – 4:30, then I woke up late – 8 am, and was late getting everyone off to school.  Got home at 10:30, had the baby asleep on my back by 11:15.

Task 11.1 }{ 0.5 hour (11:15 – 11:45) – Working on my AcWriMo intro post.

11:45 – 1:45 – Baby woke up, made us breakfast and tended him.

Task 3.1 }{ 1 hour (1:45 – 2:45) – WSP archival photos project – finalized template and Holy Rosary page, did half of Robson/Burrard Page

Task 3.1 }{ 0.5 hour (4:00 – 4:30) – WSP Robson page

Baby crank and dinner prep

Task 3.1 }{ 0.25 hour (5:00 – 5:15) – More WSP work

Task 3.1 }{ 0.75 hour (7:45 – 8:30) – WSP

2:30 – 3:00 sick baby tending

Task 3.1 }{ 0.75 hour (3:00 – 3:45) – WSP with sick baby on lap

Task 10 }{ 1 hour – emailing

Nov. 7th

Task 3.1 }{ 2 hours (10:20 – 12:20) – Finished WSP Robson/Burrard page (total 4.5 hours for this page + 30 minutes fixing up Holy Rosary Cathedral page)

So, much longer spent on this WSP page than the hour I projected, but also many more photos involved with some additional research required plus annotations to tie each photo to the WSP recordings.

Task 5 }{ 1.5 hours (1:00 – 2:45) – Final report for postdoc grant (with 15 minute break for publisher’s phone call)

Task 11.1 }{ 2 hours (8:30 – 10:30) – AcWriMo goals post

Task 10 }{ 0.5 hour (10:30 – 11:00) – emailing contributor about CASE blog and anthology editors with signed chapter contract

Nov. 8th

Task 11.1 }{ 1 hour (across 2 half hour sessions) – finishing up my opening post for AcWriMo.  Still spending way too much time on these!

Task 11.2 }{ 1 hour – fixing up week 1 log and deciding on template for the remaining posts

Task 3.3 }{ 2.5 hours (1:45 am – 4:15 am) – PNE photo page, with extra photo research and much deliberation about sequencing

Nov. 9th

Task 2.1 }{ 1 hour (between 1:45 – 3:00 pm) searching postings and saving links

Task 2.1 }{ 0.5 hour (6:15 – 6:45) copy/pasting job descriptions into word doc

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GOALS ANNOTATED WITH TASK COMPLETION RATES

1. University job applications x 3 }{ 4.5 hours

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2. More job research and CEGEP applications }{ 6 hours

3. Post-post-doc Paid Research Project: WSP Photo Pages }{ 10 hours

4. Anthology Chapter Revised from Diss }{ 25 hours

5. Final Report for Post-doc Grant Agency = 1 hour [done @ 1.5 hours]

6. Proposal for Blog Series }{ 10 hours

7. Commissioned Pre-recorded Lecture }{ 25 hours

8. Bi-Weekly Meetings with Supervisor’s Working Group }{ 4 hours

9. FSAC conference proposal = 2 hours

10. Emails: 1 hour per weekday = 20 hours [7 hours so far, 2 hours over budget]

11. AcWriMo posts }{ 5 hours

TOTAL: 112.5 hours (28 hours per week)

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WEEK 1 SUMMARY

General Breakdown:

Job applications: 5 / 4.5

WSP Project: 7.5 / 2

Grant Paperwork: 1.5 / 1

Blog Series Pitch: 2 /2

Working Group: 2 / 2

Emailing: 7 / 5

AcWriMo Logging: 5.5 / 2

Total Hours Worked on List Items: 30.5

Total Overrun on Predicted Task Lengths: 15

Total Deficit Against 28 hour budget: 13.5

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So, the prediction for how much time I can spend working is good so far.  But my predictions for task lengths are not shaping up well.  I’ve spent half my work time going overtime on a few tasks, and if this trend continues then it’s going to take double the predicted time to complete these tasks.  I REALLY don’t want to spend all of December cleaning off this list, especially since I have another list in the works for next month of essential items that didn’t make the final cut for AcWriMo.  So I have to work smarter over the next three weeks.  Or find a whole lot of extra time.  Wish me luck!

 

Posted on November 10, 2014 at 7:24 am by rjordan · Permalink
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