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Friday Five
Jul. 20th, 2018 02:50 pmQuestions from https://thefridayfive.dreamwidth.org/81508.html
1. What plans did you have for this summer?
Finish the MPhil upgrade stuff, catch up on some non-PhD composing, two cathedral singing weeks, launch the Advance Music Recommendations feature for Cecilia's List, tidy the music room enough that I can work properly in there again.
2. Have you accomplished them or is it still a work in progress?
Some have happened, some are yet to happen, some are accomplished. The Advance Music Recommendations for December exist, but I still need to work on the ones for January. Neither of the cathedral singing weeks have started yet. Non-PhD composing is... not particularly caught up, nor is tidying the music room, but I really need to get the MPhil stuff out of the way first. That has a semi-deadline of next Friday, so I'manswering questions on the internet trying to focus on that to the exclusion of pretty much everything else for the next week. We'll see. It sure would be nice to get it off my plate so I can get back to my other work and even relax a bit during August.
3. What would make this summer much better for you?
More sleep. Himself and I have been getting up at 5am due to his new job; I've only this week rebelled and started sleeping in while he gets up. I liked having long mornings in which to get a lot done, but I simply need more rest than I was getting.
4. When did you go back to school from summer break when you were a kid?
Last Monday of August or first Monday of September, generally.
5. Is anyone else as shocked as I am that July and most of the summer is nearly over?
I'm not particularly shocked about it. I'd like more time to get things done, but I don't have the expectation I had as a child of summer being this long fantasy of freedom from school.
In the UK there seems to be less emphasis than I remember from Canada on July and August as being "school is out and everything is different" times. There are three (I think?) terms in the school year and each of them has a few days off at half term; and then the kids stay in school until... sometime well into July, anyway. I'm not sure they're out yet. From that point of view it feels as if summer has hardly begun.
Meanwhile, we've had fairly warm weather for this part of the world, and a substantial drought; so it feels more like summer to me than it often does. But most of my own summer activities happen in August, while I tend to think of June, July and August as a sort of summer quarter.
1. What plans did you have for this summer?
Finish the MPhil upgrade stuff, catch up on some non-PhD composing, two cathedral singing weeks, launch the Advance Music Recommendations feature for Cecilia's List, tidy the music room enough that I can work properly in there again.
2. Have you accomplished them or is it still a work in progress?
Some have happened, some are yet to happen, some are accomplished. The Advance Music Recommendations for December exist, but I still need to work on the ones for January. Neither of the cathedral singing weeks have started yet. Non-PhD composing is... not particularly caught up, nor is tidying the music room, but I really need to get the MPhil stuff out of the way first. That has a semi-deadline of next Friday, so I'm
3. What would make this summer much better for you?
More sleep. Himself and I have been getting up at 5am due to his new job; I've only this week rebelled and started sleeping in while he gets up. I liked having long mornings in which to get a lot done, but I simply need more rest than I was getting.
4. When did you go back to school from summer break when you were a kid?
Last Monday of August or first Monday of September, generally.
5. Is anyone else as shocked as I am that July and most of the summer is nearly over?
I'm not particularly shocked about it. I'd like more time to get things done, but I don't have the expectation I had as a child of summer being this long fantasy of freedom from school.
In the UK there seems to be less emphasis than I remember from Canada on July and August as being "school is out and everything is different" times. There are three (I think?) terms in the school year and each of them has a few days off at half term; and then the kids stay in school until... sometime well into July, anyway. I'm not sure they're out yet. From that point of view it feels as if summer has hardly begun.
Meanwhile, we've had fairly warm weather for this part of the world, and a substantial drought; so it feels more like summer to me than it often does. But most of my own summer activities happen in August, while I tend to think of June, July and August as a sort of summer quarter.