On Saturday, March 14th, 2020, the day after we were sent home on account of the plague’s arrival in New York, I started keeping a log of all of the work things that I did. With very few exceptions, I’ve kept logging every day since then. The log is now approaching 10,000 entries, so I thought I should do some sort of summary. I wrote a quick Python script to do some keyword counting, and here are the top mentions (excluding stopwords):
- talk (1159)
- email (1056)
- reference (776)
- meeting (623)
- work (578)
- committee (493)
- post (367)
- blog (316)
- tweeting (309)
- writing (303)
- website (275)
- paper (261)
- chat (256)
- send (240)
- alma (222)
- update (214)
- new (197)
- acquisitions (190)
- annual (189)
- submit (185)
I’m surprised “tweeting” is in there, as we shut down our library Twitter/X account upon Elon’s takeover in 2022, and I haven’t had a personal Twitter account since 2017. But it’s there, so it was obviously front of mind at the time.
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