Back in August, a bunch of us made new school year resolutions. I happened upon mine while digging through the archives this morning, and I’m running about 60/40.

1. Write incrementally.
Heh. Maybe a semester devoted to the big blurt wasn’t the best time to set this goal. I did manage to work fairly incrementally on my NCA paper and I wrote here far more regularly than I anticipated. But did I make regular, daily progress on any articles? No. Gonna keep working on this.

2. Sit the damned exams.
Done.

3. Move about for a bit every day.
This went badly, thank you very much. One of my goals for the diss process is to figure out how to balance intellectual work and attention to the physical. Because I suck at that.

4. Screen phone calls consistently during working hours.
I’ve become excellent about this. It drives my father nuts. But I reduced my worktime interruptions considerably, and my thought process has noticeably benefitted.

5. Maintain non-teaching days as sacrosanct working days.
I also award myself quite a few points in this area. I thought it would go downhill quickly, but it was surprisingly easy to refuse invitations and lock myself in my study on Tuesdays and Thursdays. There were only one or two Work Days when I ended up out and about for unavoidable appointments.

I sorta scoffed at this resolutions business in August, but it’s worked out pretty well. I’d do it again.