It's been a minute...
I’ve been going through a rough spot for a few months, and I really feel like I’ve fallen behind. Based on my prior email, I’ve been feeling like that for a while now, but it’s gotten worse in the past couple of months.
At my most recent progress meeting, my supervisors instructed me to work on my project an hour a day. I haven’t quite made that number - I had COVID for about a week - but I’m trying. As a result, I’ve written up all of my practice reviews. This section of my paper is now 11,500 words - and that’s without the focus group notes from DC and Ottawa or any of the notes from staff meetings.
Beyond this, I also need to rewatch my focus group videos, and work on a mind map. I talked this over with my therapist recently, and we decided I would start by writing the mind map nodes on cards, then invite a friend to sit on the floor with me (and, my therapist suggests, a bottle of wine - make it fun) and help with the mapping.
So I’m managing an hour a day many days, but I still need to do more. I’d like to take a leave of absence or otherwise be able to focus full-time on this for a while, to really buckle down. But all options for that currently involve not getting paid, so, that’s not in the cards just yet. We’ll see what the future brings, though, right?