NYR Update

I should have written this post yesterday, but whatever. Here's my progress on my New Years' Resolutions, to keep me honest. My theme is "Gettin' It Done" but I had a bunch of specific goals too.

Project Efficiency:

There have been only a few instances of fake working. The fact that I can remember them suggests that I have cut down on this behavior.

I have been pretty good about setting goals for each day. Even if I don't write them down, I've still been better at breaking down tasks so I can figure out something useful to do right now, which helps with the procrastination.

I've had mixed success with avoiding procrastination. Some things have gotten done faster than usual, but other things still get put off. For example, yesterday I did nothing on my snow day and felt all guilty about it. If I had stopped procrastinating and just decided to either work or take the day off, I could have gotten something done or had fun. As it was I did neither. On the other hand, I've been good about knowing when I can't focus/sit in my chair anymore and then finding some small lab task to do so I get something done when I know I would otherwise goof off.

I have dramatically reduced blogging and other personal internet use at work. I did slack on this the last few days, but I resolve to get back on track now.

Money: Doing really well on this one!

I opened an IRA

Put a little leftover 2007 money in my ING savings, along with extra January money. More importantly, I set my automatic tranfer to the amount that I had been paying on my credit card last year. We haven't been going out too much, so hopefully this extra money thing will continue.

Health:

I have been cooking more than three times each week and one meal usually has chicken.

Work:

The Project Effeciency stuff

I have made lots of progress on Paper 1, but fear it's going to start dragging since I've done most of the easy parts. I hope that regular meetings with at least one advisor and confessing my progress here will keeep me on track.

I made little bits of progress on Chapter 2 labwork during breaks from working on Paper 1.

That's it for this month. I still have much work to do on my main issue of keeping work at work and home at home. That probably warrants its own post soon.

*The Blogger spellchecking seems to have crapped out on me. Anyone else have this problem? Sometimes I write posts in Word and paste them in blogger, but not always, so I like the spell check.