So I got an accountability partner - yay! We had a meeting today to figure out the contours of our accountability practices. We're going to use an online Google doc (on which we've already put our master lists) to keep our goals in front of us and each other. We put together mini lists for today (I did MOST of mine, but not all of it), and we were supposed to make a plan for what we were going to get done in each of the next three days. AP (that's your acronym/name, accountability partner!) pointed out that making a list for the entire week was probably not the way to go, and I agreed; it's biting off more than we can chew at this point. So I made a rough outline of what I want to get done in the next few days. It's probably way too much, but I want to see what I do when I raise the expectation bar a little. I may have to lower it again, but this is also a good exercise for me and AP to get used to what our limits are.
We share one project in common, since we have one class together, but of course our preparation for the project (a research paper) looks very different, as he knows his secondary literature, and I don't. We do hope to meet once or twice a week, if we can swing it, because we found just talking about our respective projects helped us to get a better grasp on what exactly we're dealing with and what needs to get done. I think it was a very productive meeting! More in the near future on the adventures in taming the BEAST!
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