Projects

Most of my projects involve a lot of reading, and for various reasons, that ends up taking way more time than I feel it should. When it comes to the actual reading, I'm not slow at it. It's other factors that get in the way—taking notes, lack of concentration, losing interest, processing the information.

So to balance these factors and become a more efficient and productive researcher, I have started a project on reading strategies. This will be a lighter weight project than my others because I won't be doing a lot of book research, just thinking about the problem, experimenting as I do my other projects, and writing about my findings. I've already done some work on it that I will post later.

This week has been rather busy!

Last weekend we finally switched to our new server at work. We got Exchange running and copied all our files over to the new machine, and I stayed up very late Sunday night finishing it. Since then I've been fixing things that got broken in the move.

On another front, one of our project managers has left, so now I am mostly managing one of his projects because I was pretty involved in it anyway, preparing the manuscripts for typesetting. So that is challenging, but it's also kind of fun, coordinating all those pieces, keeping people informed. :) But don't tell my bosses that; they'll give me more. o.o;;

The guy they're bringing in to replace him is interesting. He's a marketing consultant and also a pastor, and he has many ideas for helping us brand our company and take ourselves in new directions. I was a little nervous at first because I didn't know how it would all affect my job, and more specifically my pet projects, but I've relaxed since then. I'm glad he's here.

At home I've been defining my next project (yes, another one)—going to various libraries, checking out books, reading bits of them, writing. I thought I had the topic down and was going to blog about it, but then my ideas for it expanded. But now they've narrowed again, so I will write about it soon.