A few students working - 2023-11-06, day 859

Some students are trying to figure out how to solve various tasks.


I’m too tired to go to bed … late evening work and then 9h of meeting the day after (6-7 on Zoom) does that to me.


Looked at my schedule for the week … and I realized that I should not go to a few meetings on Wednesday, it’s not healthy to have a 15 min break (= lunch) for the whole day.


Hmmm, I’m on vacation today … started the day with a job meeting and some job email. Shame on me.


13h at work with just a few short breaks … I’m too old for this


The students have gone home, and the staff is on vacation. Everything is very quiet.


Handed in four cases of plagiarism to the disciplinary board. I feel sad every time I do this.


Just another day at work


Monday

Another standard day, nothing special to report. However, since we now have sunshine in the morning, sunrise was 4:09 today, it’s pretty nice to take an early walk. I was too lazy to walk more than a couple of km today but I could see that the lonely helmet had found a few friends.

And it looks like we are going to get summer this year also.

Otherwise it has been a day of meetings.


Working from home

I’ve been working from home for 9 months now and I like it. I understand that the general idea is that working from home isn’t that good, and yes, I also understand that this has been a horrible time for many. But I’m not one of them.

I’m lucky in several ways, so far, everything I should have done at work I’ve been able to from home. I also have the technical knowledge to set up computers, servers and network at home so that it’s actually possible for us to work from home. And perhaps most important, I actually like working from home, I’m an introvert and doesn’t need to be in constant contact with people — I can find it a big exhausting to be with a lot of people for longer times and I normally need some “alone-time”.

So instead of traveling to work, I can take a walk in my village, take a few photos or do something that needs to be done. So, I think I’ve managed to get more things done each day than I would normally have done. If remote work would have been possible when I started to work I would probably have had a different career.

One thing that have really changed in my landscape photography, I have taken a lot of landscape photos these months and tried some new things. I feel that I have progressed in this area. Sports and event photography … not so much.

I have to admit that there is one huge disadvantage of working from home, it’s waaaay too easy to get a snack or two from the kitchen!!!