Evaluation of my Fall 2021 goals

Fall 2021 was a particularly hard semester for me: I started wearing arch supports as I was dealing with a hip and knee injury, then I broke my toe, then we were all quarantined as my husband and daughter had COVID, meanwhile I dealt with a cancer scare after the detection of a lump in my breast, and then I traveled on emergency to Belgium as my mom’s health was getting worse, and she passed away just as I had returned to Ecuador.

I had a number of goals for this semester, so let’s see how that went:

Submit 4 papers: I submitted one, which got rejected by two journals and I haven’t come around reworking it. I worked on various papers with my students. I also resubmitted papers with major revisions. All in all, a lot has been postponed to next year.
Finish first series of experiments of my PhD candidate and work with her on the reports related to these experiments. One report is about to come to completion. In addition, I had a research project that came up short notice and that took a lot of my research time this semester.
Assist my other PhD candidate in passing his go/no go evaluation. Done, and successful!
Help my new PhD candidate getting started, and my other PhD candidate to finish his thesis. I’m a secondary advisor on this project and haven’t had the time to meet with the new candidate yet (to my shame). I just put a reminder that I should schedule a meeting in January when I’m back from traveling to Belgium. The other candidate is well on his way to completing his thesis.
Continue my research related to the doctoral defense. I haven’t been able to do much on this research.
Apply for EU funding. Submitted! And now we wait.
Spend time on creative work. Nope. I’ve scrolled Instagram instead.
Get more sleep. Here and there – but I learned that my sleep need is actually 8h45min per night, and I hate my body for being such a sloth.
Have good and early mornings. No early mornings. I’ve just been trying to survive this semester.
Make a large puzzle. I started one, worked on it for an hour one afternoon, and then rolled it up and never touched it again.
Start the construction of our house. Change of plans. We will be moving to another house in Spring 2022, stay there for a while, and then hopefully build our house.
Spend time with my husband. We had a few dates, but I want to make this even more a priority moving forward.
Have 4 trips outside of the city. We’ve made a few outings, but between not being able to walk with my toe, our quarantine, and my trip to Belgium, not much time was left for adventure.