Sound Writing Practices }{ AcWriMo 2014 }{ Week 2
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 2
Nov. 10th
Task 11.2 }{ 0.5 hour – 10:00 – 10:30 am – finalizing Week 1 AcWriMo log
Task 10 }{ 0.5 hour – 10:30 – 11:00 – emailing CATDAWG working group
Half hour spent on Facebook, half that time crafting a comment in response to that godawful Jimmy Kimmel “tradition” of publicly humiliating small children by pretending we ate their Halloween candy.
Task 3 }{ 0.5 hour – 11:45 – 12:15 – adding links to all relevant pages from tasks 3.1 and 3.3
Task 2.1 }{ 0.25 hour – 12:15 – 12:30 – searching CEGEP postings
Task 2.3 }{ 1.25 hour – 12:30 – 1:45 – Dawson letter revision and online submission; printing hard copies for physical drop-off tomorrow.
1:45 – 2:45 – Baby wake, lunch and various tendings.
Task 2.2 }{ 1 hour – 4:00 – 5:00 pm – Revising and submitting Vanier Humanities applications
Nov. 11th
Task 12.1 }{ 0.5 hour – 11:00 – 11:30 am – researching for Brinkmann interview on Thursday
11:30 – 12:00 – Baby tending and sleep induction (via ergo strap-on and dishwasher loading).
Task 2.2 }{ 0.5 hour – 12:00 – 12:30 pm – John Abbott letter revision and submission to Humanities posting
Early baby wake so rest of the afternoon was something of a write-off. I jotted down some notes for a remembrance day post I never posted, and also for a blog post on the Renegades of Rhythm show I saw on the weekend, which I’ll likely never post.
Task 12.1 }{ 1 hour – 4:30 – 5:00 / 8:00 – 8:30 – Brinkmann research
Task 12.1 }{ 1 hour – 2:00 – 3:00 am – Writing up interview questions for Brinkmann
Task 10 }{ 1 hour – email
Nov. 12th
Task 2.3 }{ 2 hours – 10:00 am – 12:00 pm – physical drop-off of hard copy materials for Dawson Humanities application
1 hour writing up draft of blog post for Interstellar review
Task 3.2 }{ 1 hour – 4:30 – 5:30 – Kerrisdale page picture selection
Task 3.2 }{ 1 hour – 9:00 – 9:30 – Kerrisdale page picture selection
Task 10 }{ 1 hour
Nov. 13th
Task 3.2 }{ 1.25 hours – 11:00 – 12:15 – Kerrisdale page picture insertion and linking
Task 3.4 }{ 1.5 hours – 1:00 3:00 pm (with half hour break) – Downtown banks page picture insertion and commentary
Task 12.2 }{ 1.5 hours – 4:30 – 6:00 pm – interview shoot for Brinkmann piec
Task 10 }{ 1 hour – scattered emailing
Nov. 14th
Task 10 }{ 0.5 hours – 12:30 – 1:00 pm – emailing referees with new job list
Task 10 }{ 0.5 hours – scattered Tweeting @ #acwrimo & #sva2014
Spent most of the day on the Sound Vision Action live stream with the intention of hammering out two job applications due tomorrow but ultimately too absorbed in the talks to concentrate on anything else, except for the baby of course.
Weekday Total: 17.5 hours
Weekend Needs: 10.5 hours
Nov. 15th
Task 1.3 }{ 0.5 hours – revising research statement for job application
Task 10 }{ 0.5 hours – emailing colleagues
Task 1.3 }{ 2 hours – 3:00 – 5:oo – cover letter
Task 1.3 }{ 1.5 hours – 5:00 – 6:30 – revising research statement and application submission
Task 3 }{ 0.5 hours – 1:30 – 2:00 am – compiling completed pages and sending to supervisor
Nov. 16th
Task 10 }{ 1 hour – emailing colleagues
Task 11.3 }{ 0.5 hours – daily logging
Task 11.3 }{ 0.5 hours – week-end tally
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GOALS ANNOTATED WITH TASK COMPLETION RATES
1. University job applications x 3 }{ 4.5 hours
- 1.1. Nov. 3rd = 1.5 hours [Week 1: done @ 1.5 hours]
- 1.2. Nov. 4th = 1.5 hours [Week 1: done @ 2 hours]
- 1.3. Nov. 15th = 1.5 hours [Week 2: done @ 4 hours]
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2. More job research and CEGEP applications }{ 6 hours
- 2.1. Research new postings = 2 hours [Week 1: 1.5 hours for TT list; Week 2: 0.25 hours CEGEP]
- 2.2. Nov. 11th Cegep = 1 hour [Week 2: done @ 1.5 hours]
- 2.3. blanket CEGEP submissions = 3 hours [Week 2: 3.25 hours]
3. Post-post-doc Paid Research Project: WSP Photo Pages }{ 10 hours
- 3.0. General [Week 2: 1 hour]
- 3.1. Robson/Burrard page = 1 hour [Week 1: done @ 5 hours]
- 3.2. Kerrisdale page = 1 hour [Week 2: done @ 3.25 hours]
- 3.3. PNE page = 1 hour [Week 1: done @ 2.5 hours]
- 3.4. Downtown banks page = 1 hour [Week 2: done @ 1.5 hours]
- 3.5. False Creek page = 1 hour
- 3.6. Chinatown page = 1 hour
- 3.7. DTES page = 1 hour
- 3.8. Gastown page = 1 hour
- 3.9. English Bay page = 1 hour
- 3.10 Kits Beach page = 1 hour
4. Anthology Chapter Revised from Diss }{ 25 hours
- 4.1. Finish blocking out revised structure = 1 hour
- 4.2. Cut down film descriptions = 8 hours
- 4.3 Synthesize theory sections into one = 8 hours
- 4.4. Smoothing pass = 8 hours
5. Final Report for Post-doc Grant Agency = 1 hour [Week 1: done @ 1.5 hours]
6. Proposal for Blog Series }{ 2 hours
- 6.1. Pitch = 2 hours [Week 1: done @ 2 hours]
7. Commissioned Pre-recorded Lecture }{ 25 hours
- 7.1. Read over Grunt version and compare with MaMI version = 1 hour
- 7.2. Synthesize two versions = 2 hours
- 7.3. Add section addressing problems with WSP = 2 hours
- 7.4. Add section on unsettled listening = 2 hours
- 7.5. Smoothing pass = 4 hours
- 7.6. Recording lecture audio = 4 hours
- 7.7. Editing final copy = 10 hours
8. Bi-Weekly Meetings with Supervisor’s Working Group }{ 4 hours
- 8.1. Nov. 3 = 2 hours [Week 1: done @ 2 hours]
- 8.2. Nov. 17 = 2 hours
9. FSAC conference proposal = 2 hours
10. Emails: 1 hour per weekday = 20 hours [Week 1: 7 hours; Week 2: 6 hours]
11. AcWriMo posts }{ 5 hours
- 11.1. Intro and Goals = 1 hour [Week 1: done @ 4.5 hours = 3.5 hour defecit]
- 11.2. Week 1 = 1 hour [Week 1: 1 hour; Week 2: 0.5 hour; done @ 1.5 hours]
- 11.3. Week 2 = 1 hour [Week 2: 1 hour]
- 11.4. Week 3 = 1 hour
- 11.5. Week 4 = 1 hour
12. Freelance Gig: Brinkmann Interview }{ 20 hours
- 12.1. Research and interview script = 4 hours [Week 2: done @ 2 hours]
- 12.2. Interview shoot = 1 hour [Week 2: done @ 1.5 hours]
- 12.3. Written transcription = 3 hours
- 12.4. Video rough cut = 4 hours
- 12.5. Video fine cut = 4 hours
- 12.6. Finalizing and posting content = 4 hours
TOTAL: 124.5 hours (32 hours per week)
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WEEK 2 SUMMARY
General Breakdown:
Job applications: 5 / 4.5
WSP Project: 5.75 / 2
Emailing: 6 / 5
AcWriMo Logging: 1 / 1
Freelance Interview: 3.5 / 5
Total Hours Worked on List Items: 24.75
Total Overrun on Predicted Task Lengths: 3.75
Total Deficit Against 28 hour budget: 7
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So I fell short of my original 28 hour plan, mostly because I was streaming the Sound Vision Action conference at home on Friday and didn’t get much else done. I thought I could get a couple of job applications written up while listening, but it was far too engaging to concentrate on much else. Plus the baby didn’t sleep much that day. I also had another paid gig pop up early in the week so that took precedence over other stuff, as it will again next week. Generally I hit my predicted task lengths a bit better this week than last, but it’s clear now that some of my goals will not be met this month. And to top things off, I landed a preliminary interview for the university posting that best fits my work so far this season. That will be a 15-minute thing next Monday, so I’ll spend most of my available time next week prepping for that while finishing the paid gig. That will leave only one week to sort out the overdue chapter and lecture recording that formed half of my goals for this month. Obviously something will have to give, and next week I will revise my goal list accordingly.
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