Morningtime Friday Five + etc

From thefridayfive, as usual:

1. What plans did you have for this summer?
My plans were pretty boring in a 'this doesn't sound like fun stuff' kind of way, but monumental in a 'life improvement' sort of way - finish graduate school, quit the job that was making me miserable, find a job that actually uses the professional skills I've honed including my MPH and pays equivalently. Everything else was contingent on how quickly I found new employment.

2. Have you accomplished them or is it still a work in progress?
I actually accomplished all of those things while it was still spring! Because I took a leap of faith and, believing my thesis would be finished on time, quit my job without finding a new one. And was almost immediately hired for the job I'm in now. I had under a week between my graduation (which was May 31) and starting this position (June 5).

Now that I have been in this job for over a month I can definitely say that while it's still stressful, it's primarily eustress and is doing a lot more that I actually want to be doing with much, much less introvert drain. I still have to interact with strangers and make demands of people, but it's not 80-100 of them daily.

3. What would make this summer much better for you?
I'd like the moving to be going more smoothly in a way that didn't require ridiculous coordinating, everything to be less expensive and my dog to be less anxious. I would say 'an actual vacation' but I'd rather work in the summer and vacation somewhere warm in the winter ...

4. When did you go back to school from summer break when you were a kid?
Just after Labor Day, but we also didn't finish for the year until the last week of June. Undergrads were different, and graduate school was a different form of different, but when I was a kid it was very consistent.

5. Is anyone else as shocked as I am that July and most of the summer is nearly over?
YES. How is it the 20th.

On the other hand, for the first time in my life I am not in school (don't ask how many degrees I have, it is probably Too Many) and so I get to remember that summer actually for real ends on September 21st! So it's really only half over, right?

Moving is, um, it's going. I've been at work, failing at refusing to accept more projects, so I now have a ridiculous pile of projects. I did all the year-end data visualizations despite that not even remotely being part of my job because I'm the only actually trained data scientist in the building and thus the exec director (who I keep wanting to call the XO but that's not the correct equivalency) specifically asked me to (context is access locked because of work details, sorry). And I did not say no, because I am the only actual data scientist here and they handed me everything in properly prepared spreadsheets so it really only took me ten minutes or so! ... per spreadsheet, and there were something like 25 of them. So it actually took me four and a half hours. Plus requested edits. Though it was enjoyable to do and I like using my skills to be genuinely helpful even if it's not for my department.

Plus most of my own data is due today, and as usual because I'm waiting on reporting from various departments, it's going to be a close shave to actually get all of it in. I will therefore be working on this one data set all day. This is fine. The point was I have mostly been giving orders to husband and mom in regard to moving things, and trying to keep the dog's stress down, rather than actually doing much packing/sorting/donating things. I do my part on weekends after I've slept.

I'm supposed to be RPing to be able to keep my roles in my primary game, but I just don't have the energy to do so with all the work stuff going on. Really makes me miss journal-or-forum-based campaigns where I could comment twice and say I did something, instead of a 3ish hour scene.