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Weekly review: Week ending March 1, 2013

Posted on March 2nd, 2013 by Sacha Chua

Lots of cooking this week! I spent the weekend making nine different banchan recipes, and it really paid off in terms of yummy beef bulgogi lunches with varied appetizers. Yay!

I did a lot of writing, too. I like doing that. And drawing. =) And I got to talk to lots of interesting people! Life is good.

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Accomplished this week

  • Business
    • Earn: Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
    • Earn: Consulting – E1 – Thursday
    • Drawing
      • Sketchnote a book
      • Map some artist styles
      • Add people to Visual Thinkers Toronto mailing list
      • Co-host Visual Thinkers Toronto meetup
      • Work on building my visual vocabulary
      • Follow up with U
      • Practise drawing faces
      • Clip more images
    • Emacs
      • Prepare for pair programming session – want to talk through Emacs configuration, tool setup
      • Research how people are using Emacs
      • Emacs talk
      • Write lots of blog posts
  • Relationships
    • Talk to Oliver Barthel about sketchnotes
    • Drop by HackLab.to on Friday
    • Talk to Avdi about his Emacs setup
    • Cook a lot of food
    • Set up tea for Saturday
  • Life

Plans for next week

  • Business
    • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Thursday
    • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
    • [ ] Co-host Quantified Self Toronto meetup: 3/6 (Wed)
    • [ ] Prepare for graphic recording meeting with client M
    • [ ] Meet with client M about graphic recording
    • [ ] Listen to last course in scribing
    • [ ] Sketchnote a book
    • [ ] Emacs: Add more detail to present section of talk
  • Relationships
    • [ ] Drop by HackLab.to on Monday
    • [ ] Drop by HackLab.to on Wednesday
    • [ ] Drop by HackLab.to on Friday
    • [ ] Check out neuroscience lecture?
    • [ ] Visit Emma Logue
    • [ ] Visit Stephen Crawford
    • [ ] Work on project R
    • [ ] Watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer
    • [ ] Check out Final Fantasy XIII
  • Life
    • [ ] Set up dentist appointment
    • [ ] Write about anxiety and self-talk
    • [ ] Write blog post about chat with Avdi Grimm
    • [ ] Study for the Canadian citizenship test
    • [ ] Declutter

Time review

  • Business: 39.9 hours (E1: 13.8, Connect: 10.2, Drawing: 14.9)
  • Discretionary: 31.3 hours (Emacs: 13.6, Writing: 4.0)
  • Personal: 14.4 hours (Routines: 10.9)
  • Sleep: 60.1 hours – average of 8.6 hours per day
  • Unpaid work: 22.3 hours (Commuting: 3.9, Cook: 11.2)

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