Goals, an update

We're into the third week of the semester and, as I sit here taking a quick break from responding to student essays (already? Student essays already? I mean, I know I assigned them, but still), I thinking about these goals I set for myself.

How am I doing? How nice of you to ask. In some ways, I'm doing well. In others, not so much.

Overall I feel like I have a better handle on this term than I did last term, but organization and balance are still struggles for me. On the personal goals I'm doing okay. I've been bringing my lunch and, knocking out two goals in one, it's almost always a salad. I've been *generally* eating better, drinking more water, less pop. I've bought fewer coffees at Caribou.

Kara and I are having our second meeting of our writing couple (it's just the two of us, so it's hardly a group) this afternoon and will meet again next week when I'll have SOME sort of revision of my argument article draft. So that's going well. I got into one conference so far, applied to another, and am planning to apply to two more.

In terms of teaching, though, it's still throwing other things out of whack, and I'm not as far ahead as I want to be. I keep saying "THIS weekend I'll get ahead," but then I'm scrambling at the last minute to stay up to date, and "ahead" seems impossible. But hope springs eternal, so maybe this weekend I'll get ahead.