Wibly Wobly Timey Wimey
Sep. 9th, 2012 09:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
agnieszkasHere's a fun fact bout me: I'm a freelance writer and I work from home. I get paid based on an hourly rate which means I try to track my activities every moment of every day. It doesn't always happen and the time report I check doesn't account for everything (like watching TV shows and Tumblr) but nonetheless Toggl is my friend.
Why am I mentioning this? Other than to share something with the Internetz, every Sunday I check my time report on Toggl to see how the week went and how much time I spent on various tasks/activities and to see what could be improved as far as my productivity goes.
I could spend less time on Tumblr, for starters.
Funny how it's so much easier to watch less shows than to give up Tumblr.
Hell, I managed to give up LJ completely and switch to DW where I know way less people.
But Tumblr doesn't want to let go. help?
And today I checked my time report as usual and it hit me.
Catching up with my OTW duties and taking over as chair of Translation took a lot of time. Since Sept 1 I spent 18 hours doing OTW work (14 this week only).
And that doesn't account for those 5 hours I spent at the end of August cleaning up Teen Wolf tags
Side note:
I love Teen Wolf. It's been ages since I was so invested and active in any fandom. This fandom is awesome, so when the opportunity to wrangle Teen Wolf tags appeared I grabbed it. But, OMG, you can tell that Teen Wolf lives primarily on Tumblr. Freeform tags to that fandom are scary and messy and so not search-friendly it isn't even funny.
That's from Tag Wrangling perspective - as a tag wrangler I want my tags in order and nice and searchable.
But when I'm a reader, reading those tags is so much fun.
Yes, I have several different personalities in my head. They are talking to me.
I'm a writer after all :P
/Side note
I'm sure you're suspecting that I will follow this report with a lot of complaining and stuff. After all, it's 18 hours I could've spent reading fic or watching those TV shows I'm so far behind.
But the thing is: my job didn't suffer because of this additional work load.
Neither did my enthusiasm.
I spent 18 hours wrangling tags, sending emails, catching up on work done during my hiatus, crafting to-do lists and plans and outlines for docs I want to prepare.
And it was awesome.
It will probably sound weird to you, but I honestly enjoy administrative tasks. I love coordinating shit and coordinating people. I love making spreadsheets in Excel and outlining activities. More importantly, I think I'm good at it. (Feel free to disabuse me of this notion if you disagree)
The only reason why I had to go on hiatus is that I had to prioritize my RL because of big changes that were happening that I had to stay on top of. Now that everything's fixed I can go back to the stuff I love.
Here's a semi-complete list of stuff I'm excited about:
The big problem here is the fact that most of our language teams are small and can't handle translating a lot of material that has a very tight schedule. It's something Translation committee needs to work on and we need to figure out how to encourage people to help out with translating OTW content. (Planning - another thing I'm excited about!)
And with that, I shall go and reward myself with an episode of Criminal Minds (I've been very productive this week). I keep rewatching older episodes and squeeing at Morgan/Garcia goodness.
Why am I mentioning this? Other than to share something with the Internetz, every Sunday I check my time report on Toggl to see how the week went and how much time I spent on various tasks/activities and to see what could be improved as far as my productivity goes.
I could spend less time on Tumblr, for starters.
Funny how it's so much easier to watch less shows than to give up Tumblr.
Hell, I managed to give up LJ completely and switch to DW where I know way less people.
But Tumblr doesn't want to let go. help?
And today I checked my time report as usual and it hit me.
Catching up with my OTW duties and taking over as chair of Translation took a lot of time. Since Sept 1 I spent 18 hours doing OTW work (14 this week only).
And that doesn't account for those 5 hours I spent at the end of August cleaning up Teen Wolf tags
Side note:
I love Teen Wolf. It's been ages since I was so invested and active in any fandom. This fandom is awesome, so when the opportunity to wrangle Teen Wolf tags appeared I grabbed it. But, OMG, you can tell that Teen Wolf lives primarily on Tumblr. Freeform tags to that fandom are scary and messy and so not search-friendly it isn't even funny.
That's from Tag Wrangling perspective - as a tag wrangler I want my tags in order and nice and searchable.
But when I'm a reader, reading those tags is so much fun.
Yes, I have several different personalities in my head. They are talking to me.
I'm a writer after all :P
/Side note
I'm sure you're suspecting that I will follow this report with a lot of complaining and stuff. After all, it's 18 hours I could've spent reading fic or watching those TV shows I'm so far behind.
But the thing is: my job didn't suffer because of this additional work load.
Neither did my enthusiasm.
I spent 18 hours wrangling tags, sending emails, catching up on work done during my hiatus, crafting to-do lists and plans and outlines for docs I want to prepare.
And it was awesome.
It will probably sound weird to you, but I honestly enjoy administrative tasks. I love coordinating shit and coordinating people. I love making spreadsheets in Excel and outlining activities. More importantly, I think I'm good at it. (Feel free to disabuse me of this notion if you disagree)
The only reason why I had to go on hiatus is that I had to prioritize my RL because of big changes that were happening that I had to stay on top of. Now that everything's fixed I can go back to the stuff I love.
Here's a semi-complete list of stuff I'm excited about:
- Taking on Freeforms in Teen Wolf fandom (I won't be able to reign them in? I won't be able? Challenge accepted, Teen Wolf fandom!)
- Continue taking over stuff as chair of Translation - there's still a lot that happened and a lot that I have questions about. But that's a matter of few emails and maybe a GTalk chat
- Elections! - our language teams will be attempting to translate some stuff for the upcoming Elections so many fans/members who don't speak English or don't feel comfortable using English will be able to participate and stay informed.
The big problem here is the fact that most of our language teams are small and can't handle translating a lot of material that has a very tight schedule. It's something Translation committee needs to work on and we need to figure out how to encourage people to help out with translating OTW content. (Planning - another thing I'm excited about!)
And with that, I shall go and reward myself with an episode of Criminal Minds (I've been very productive this week). I keep rewatching older episodes and squeeing at Morgan/Garcia goodness.
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Date: 2012-09-09 09:30 pm (UTC)And yeah, chairing does increase the workload significantly, but the most important thing is that it stays fun.
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Date: 2012-09-09 10:03 pm (UTC)I suspected I would spend more time on OTW, so I was mentally prepared. If I could I would spend even more time on stuff connected to the committee and the org, but, well, gotta pay the bills, right? :)