As tends to be the way of these things, being busy means less posting around here. And I'm very busy right now. The library's financial year ends with July, so we're spending money like it's going out of fashion, which when added to the disturbing promptness of some of our suppliers (I'm sure it used to take longer than this to get books from Italy) means that work is completely nuts. Good, but nuts. So I'm reduced to list form once again, along with skimming my flist to keep roughly up to date with folks, even if I can't comment.
*I
will post about London Zoo and Lille at some point, if only to show you all the pretty pictures. Both were much fun.
*The First Aid course was exhausting, but I passed and I'm fairly confident that I know what I'm doing with most things now. Apparently you usually get an emergency within 2 weeks of passing or 1 month of needing to requalify. I'm bracing myself.
*The Dreaded DPhil is handed in and we're just waiting to hear about a Viva (thesis defence). News from the job-front is varied, with lots of possibilities but nothing definite yet. Since we have housing (our letting agents have agreed a brilliant deal for us, whereby we're on 2 month rolling contract and they haven't put the rent up) and interim work (thanks to J's supervisor), we can afford to hold our breaths for a few weeks while things get sorted out.
*We've booked a holiday in Menorca for the end of August, which is just what I needed. Having something to look forward to makes the weeks go quicker.
*I'm not writing. At all. Make of that what you will.
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bringthehappy is chugging along nicely,
bau_bigbang first drafts are due tomorrow, and I've decided that unless I have a brainwave this evening, I'm going to drop out of
spn_summergen. Which is immensely frustrating, but how it's going to have to be. See point above.
*The insurance company has agreed to pay out for our stuff, which is good. We're now waiting for paperwork/negotiations, which is bad because I'm impatient and want my baby computer back in time for Menorca. On the plus side, our wallets were found dumped in a local bin store - they're damaged, so still need replacing, but I've got my address book, notes and little cards back as well as the pencil (which sounds petty, but it's a teeny organiser and the pencils are disproportionately expensive!) so I'm chuffed about that.
*My choir's summer concert went well despite the rain. My solo and 'assist' went well (I sang Raoul so that someone else could sing 'Think of Me' without an embarrassing gap in the middle), but the duet went rather wrong. Ah well. Next time.
*I want to learn something. Anything, pretty much. At the moment I'm trying to decide whether I want to do a creative writing type thing (I might want to do the Diploma/MA at some point, so it'd be as well to start practising), a science type thing (maybe Maths A-level) or a computer type thing (anything, really). Computer thing is probably most use, writing is where my heart is, but I'd love to do some advanced maths at some point. Thoughts? What could I teach myself fairly easily, and what would I need teaching? I'm still working on the flute, but I'm going to need to start setting time aside for that properly. All advice gratefully received!
ETA: Hmmm...I can get most of the computer tutorials I want through w3schools, so I probably don't want to pay for those...
My brain is struggling at the moment. It needs input and stimulation, and work just isn't quite enough. So come on, folks, what should I learn to do?