October 2019 Monthly Review

Nichole Bennett
Nov 1 · 2 min read

highlights from the past month

lessons learned from last month

  • slowing down and enjoying being present at drawn-out Grecian meals
  • pleasure activism plays an important role for me personally and in my work

theme or emotion that sums up the month

  • remembering to love myself

outcome of last month’s goal, projects completed

  • turned in science communication fellowships report to Rita Allen Foundation
  • revised and refined logic model for climate change dramaturgy project for Planet Texas 2050
  • finished reading every single one of Lovecraft’s prose stories
  • Growing Gills reading and activities for refocusing creative work
  • revised Machine Learning for Biologists course
  • Interpersonal Communication class trends in research presentation

goals for the month ahead

grad school

  • finish class projects
  • quality of science communication measure and study
  • science communication fellowships paper
  • social psychology project

creative

  • finish blogging class and create PR plan for STEMprov
  • site published for STEMprov

personal

  • organize and inventory clothes to streamline mornings

media enjoyed in the last month

films

  • Jenny Slate: Stage Fright
  • Call Me By Your Name

TV

  • The Dragon Prince (Season 1 and 2)
  • The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

books

  • The King in Yellow
  • The Yellow Wallpaper
  • Worms of the Earth
  • Atomic Habits
  • Lovecraft Country
  • The Shadow Out of Time
  • The Thing on the Doorstep
  • Stealing Cthulhu

podcasts

  • HP Lovecraft Literary Podcast
  • How to Survive the End of the World

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