Weekly review: Week ending January 7, 2011

Posted on January 8th, 2011 by Sacha Chua

Relearning the piano. It’s interesting. I can remember playing better than this. Now I’m re-learning how to play these pieces, going, “Ahh. That feels familiar. And then there should be this bit over here – yes, that’s right.” On the other hand, I read notes a little bit faster now than I did before.

Getting well. A persistent cough and some sniffles, but definitely better than last week.

From last week’s plans

Work
- [X] Work on Project M: Documentation, tidying up
- [X] Work on Project S: Clean things up
- [X] Idea Lab: Run Idea Lab
- [X] Illustrate networking tips
- Learned how to hack Drupal messaging and notifications
- Found out my Lotusphere 2011 session got accepted
- Had team lunch with Jennifer Nolan, Johnny Patterson and Elena Neroslavskaya

Relationships
- [-] Look into cooking or cleaning assistance
- Watched Bride and Prejudice with W- and J- (hooray library DVDs)
- Read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls
- … and in general, enjoyed all sorts of things Austen

Life
- [X] Get well
- [X] Hire a virtual assistant again
- Watched Bottle Shock, also from the library – that was fun
- Started teaching myself the piano again
- Sketched my goals for 2011.
- Posted my book notes and improved my book workflow.
- Posted a Kijiji ad looking for a piano teacher

Plans for next week

Work
- [X] Finish up on project S
- [X] Start testing project M
- [X] Fix my Lotus Notes
- [X] Look into Lotusphere

Relationships
- [X] Get around to hosting a get-together, maybe a game night
- [X] Plan May trip

Life
- [X] Get back into sewing: work on black dress
- [X] Post more book notes

Time analysis


Sleep	73.6 hours	~ 11 hours per day, thanks to good weekends
Work	33.5 hours	A little overtime, but it’s good
Break	22 hours	Recuperating
Writing	12 hours
Piano practice	7 hours
Routines	5.5 hours
Outsourceable	4 hours
Exercise	2.5 hours
Social	1.5 hours
Travel	0.5 hours	Worked from home so that I wouldn’t get others sick
Untracked	5.9 hours	Jan 1-3 had hole-y records, but Jan 4 – 7 was all tracked

Once my categories settle down, I might do some between-week analysis…

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