Apropos my recent post on ten years, I looked up a Zach journal entry today. It’s short. From 2014.
November 16, Weekly Reviewage
My long elusive week of kick-assery finally arrived, in the form of a 53.75 hour week, which is a full five hours longer than any I’ve recorded this fall. It as a pretty simple formula- getting shit done on a Saturday and doing enough on Mon-Wed to counter some lower totals on Thurs-Fri.
The major jump is in research, as I’ve really been going hard at this project with both a lot of time on the lit review and with interviews and transcribing and whatnot. One noticeable trend is the significantly lower amounts of time I’m spending on classes and schoolwork- that’s mainly me not spending as much time on stats. I don’t know if it’s because I’ve hit a wall with it or because there isn’t as much useful “work” to do on it but it’s a bit worrisome when considering what next semester will look like, when I assume I’ll have more real work, as well as more schoolwork. I guess the bright side is I have a better understanding of what I have to do for teaching, so that will (hopefully) be a bit less time consuming.
Apropos of nothing, here is a photo of Zach’s desk as I found it, a little more than 24 hours after his death.
