What's Up Wednesday - October 15
What's Up Wednesday is a weekly blog hop created by Jaime Morrow and Erin Funk to help writers stay in touch. I can't stop listening to Fall Out Boy's new song, "Immortals." It's actually getting a little worrying.
What I'm Reading:
Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan (last book in Heroes of Olympus which is the sequel to Percy Jackson and the Olympians) arrived Friday. I started it around two and read it in one unstoppable spree of nine hours. I considered slowing down, actually savoring it since it's the last book, but it just wasn't possible. I wasn't going to sleep that night without finishing. This could not have been a more perfect ending to the series. I don't think I have ever loved a conclusion this much, and that's including Deathly Hallows. I haven't actually started reading anything else since.
What I'm Writing:
Still LP, though I've been taking this week off writing.
What Works for Me:
To do lists. I have multiple sets of them in an Excel spreadsheet so that I can stay organized. There's one for the day, one for grad school stuff, one for homework, one for things to get done that week, and another for things that I need to do but don't have a set time frame. It helps me to make sure that I don't forget to do anything and makes me feel accomplished when I delete things from the list.
What Else I've Been Up To:
It's been an insane week. I just got a job as a tutor for a stats class that I took last year, overseeing a study group. I started yesterday and it's been a steep learning curve. The class I'm tutoring for has a different professor and let's just say she has different methods from the one I had. I'll be doing a lot of stats review this weekend.
What I'm Reading:
Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan (last book in Heroes of Olympus which is the sequel to Percy Jackson and the Olympians) arrived Friday. I started it around two and read it in one unstoppable spree of nine hours. I considered slowing down, actually savoring it since it's the last book, but it just wasn't possible. I wasn't going to sleep that night without finishing. This could not have been a more perfect ending to the series. I don't think I have ever loved a conclusion this much, and that's including Deathly Hallows. I haven't actually started reading anything else since.
What I'm Writing:
Still LP, though I've been taking this week off writing.
What Works for Me:
To do lists. I have multiple sets of them in an Excel spreadsheet so that I can stay organized. There's one for the day, one for grad school stuff, one for homework, one for things to get done that week, and another for things that I need to do but don't have a set time frame. It helps me to make sure that I don't forget to do anything and makes me feel accomplished when I delete things from the list.
What Else I've Been Up To:
It's been an insane week. I just got a job as a tutor for a stats class that I took last year, overseeing a study group. I started yesterday and it's been a steep learning curve. The class I'm tutoring for has a different professor and let's just say she has different methods from the one I had. I'll be doing a lot of stats review this weekend.
Comments
Congrats on your tutoring job!
I really need to read the Heroes of Olympus series, as I loved the Percy Jackson books.
To Do Lists really help me balance my working life. I quite like ticking things off.
Have a great week!
Congrats on getting a new job as a tutor! That's fantastic.
Hope you have a great week!
I have the same problem with conclusion books, especially epic ones like HP or Percy Jackson. If I'm into a book, I will rearrange everything on my schedule - including work and school! - to finish that bad boy, haha :)
Have a wonderful week!
-- Caitie