People ask me about my daily routines, so I thought I& #39;d share something here. Like the vast majority of you all, I have care work that is unavoidable (plus housework, which personally I hate). I usually try to avoid READING Twitter in the morning because it really screws me up.
So, I wake up, wash my teeth, wash my face, start up the coffee, make my bed and launch my laptop. If I see urgent @ replies on Twitter, I do read and respond to those. If nothing seems urgent, I go on @buffer and pre-schedule 10 tweets of blog posts I think that might be helpful
If you& #39;re wondering, yes, I& #39;m wearing PJs right now. From 4 am to about 6 am, which is my prime writing/research/thinking time, I don& #39;t actually change into work clothes. My Mom tends to wake up rather late, which gives me enough work hours to put in a decent 6-7 work day before
I think if you& #39;ve followed me for long enough (and some of you have followed me for 12 years!) you& #39;ll probably know that whatever I write about comes with the proviso that I am VERY intense, but you don& #39;t have to be to implement ANY of my techniques/strategies. Be and live CHILL.
Obviously parents (and specifically Moms) face very specific challenges that I don& #39;t outline here, as do folks facing disabilities. I always acknowledge this.

Anyway, what helps ME is to start myself up with something very chill. I either read an article, a book chapter or...
... an article. I highlight, scribble. Maybe I take a few notes in my Everything Notebook. I always recommend to "ease into the day". Particularly because my brain doesn& #39;t operate before the first coffee.

Perhaps 15 minutes is all you have to focus on work throughout the day.
This is totally understandable. We& #39;re in a crisis situation. We& #39;re not doing online learning, we are doing "emergency remote teaching" (I stole that phrase from someone and I& #39;m going to try to find who said this on Twitter so I can credit them).

Anyhow, those 15 minutes...
A lot of people in the #AcWri field will say "USE THOSE 15 MINUTES TO WRITE AS MUCH AS YOU CAN".

I used to be one of those.

I think the best approach is to take those 15 minutes to CENTER YOURSELF. If 15 minutes is all you can focus b/c of all the shit going on, THEN...
... those are very well spent 15 minutes.

In 2014, both my parents underwent surgery at the same time, and I was all by myself to take care of BOTH of them. Obviously I was not able to do any work for months. My parents live in separate houses, so it was a logistical challenge.
So, when I had 15 minutes, I did not write like there was no tomorrow.

No. All I did was to journal and note to myself what I was thinking that could potentially, when my parents were healthy, help me move my work forward.

I see this crisis and think back to those years.
Eventually, both my parents recovered and I was able to go back to work. This was, obviously, before my eczema/dermatitis/psoriasis/chronic pain/chronic fatigue manifested itself. I went back into work full steam and that was that.

But I always remind myself of when I really...
... basically had only 15 minutes to myself and I think about how important remaining centered was to me and my mental health.

Personally, maintaining some semblance of association with academia makes me feel grounded, so even if I am overwhelmed, I try to always read a bit.
*apparently more than one person mentioned emergency remote teaching and online learning* https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%22emergency%20remote%20learning%22%20%22online%20teaching%22&src=typd">https://twitter.com/search...
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