Weekly Wrap-Up & Biomarkers

Planning
Task Management
Mussel Biomarkers
Published

April 11, 2026

Plan of the Week: April 6 - April 12, 2026

High- level outline for the week. Adjusted daily to reflect progress of the day before

  • This week’s plan is to continue to move forward with the methylation analysis, refresh mutual goals, expectations and priorities with Steven, and set goals for April.

Monday - Planning the week & Setting April Goals

Tuesday - UW-RUA, No Science

Wednesday - Friday: Will Outline post Steven 1v1

Thursday - Task management

Friday - Biomarker Manuscript - ‘Clarify’ edits

Saturday - No Science

Sunday - Reading

Plan of the Day

Granular level task list to accomplish the high- level goal outlined above

  • Saturday offers a few bonus hours of working time as I was able to wrap–up some of my other obligations earlier than expected.
    • Goal 1- get a weekly wrap-up post knocked out.
      • Summarize the week’s activities, put the priority dates on my physical wall calendar, and start to layer-in the weekly plan for the methylation manuscript.
    • Goal 2- review my writing updates on the biomarker manuscript and either update the manuscript or make notes on what can be improved.

Projects Touched Today

  • Mussel Biomarkers
  • Mussel Methylation

Progress Notes

  • I started by writing my weekly wrap-up post.
    • I have gotten out of the habit of reviewing the past week in totality, identifying what did and did not work, and using it to build the plan for the upcoming week, so this helped me return to the practice.
    • It also made it clear that my process may be helpful to others who are struggling to balance multiple priorities, so I included it as I worked it.
    • Finally, doing this helped me with the schedule review I typically do on Sunday. It’s a short week, next week, because I’ll be heading up to Yellow for my first tide series. I have to make sure I don’t overload it!
  • Next, while working through my planning process, I created the list of weekly tasks/ deliverables for the writing portion of the methylation work.
    • It’s still a little loosey-goosey, but I’m getting closer to something with manageable momentum.
    • The only constant right now is the reading load. Unlike how I was reading for biomarkers, I am going to add an annotated bibliography. I spent way too much time reviewing my notes over and over, so rather than have to do that every time I sit down to write, I’m going to add a column for the annotation to the lit table that makes it much easier to only review the papers I need for the portion I’m working on rather than using the tag- system to choose.
  • Returning to the biomarker manuscript, I didn’t realize that the draft and visuals were in my personal Google Drive rather than my UW one. I set those up properly before reviewing my writing from yesterday.
    • The new link to the products is here.
    • I took a look at my newer pieces, my current existing draft, and fought with my brain a bit to keep it on track. A good chunk of my drafting yesterday is a bit elementary in structure and word choice, so rather than fight with it, I made notes as to which lines in each section the sentences supported and ‘struck out’ what was already covered in the full draft.
    • That was the extent of it. Fresh brain in the morning = fresh writing and incorporation.

Outcomes: Products & Word Count

  • Weekly wrap-up post: 1621 words

Today’s total: 1621 words

Monthly total to date: 4420 words

Annual total to date: 37,093 words

Annual target total to date: 50,000 words

Next Up: Tomorrow’s Plan

  • Back at the biomarker draft.