Building a bed (not from scratch ).

Writing a report... the first stage towards publishing the research I've been working on!

I shall be so pleased if I get my first paper with my name on before I graduate; but we shall see!

I'm now wasting time on the forum while I wait for the technician to give me my data logging computer back so I can get the data to finish the report...

*happpyTamsin*

Reading - in fact I'm still doing so - multitasking

Clarinet practise!

Getting on with my essay...

which was supposed to be handed in today...

but I didn't quite finish it at half one in the morning yesterday, so decided I'd brave not having it completed...

My teacher didn't mind too much I don't think. She takes literally months to mark things which other teachers can do within a week, because she has a two year old son, and would prefer being with him. Still really bad of me though. I'll have to give myself extra sightreading practice as a punishment

Ooh, but actually, I haven't got any exams for aaaaaages!!!! I hope.

Phoning my pupils to give them their results

Eating the first meal I have made in about 6 months. I made roasted vegetables and couscous. Cooking may not be as scary as I had thought it to be.

Sounds like they were good results!

Teaching

Walking round the garden calling a recalcitrant cat who ought to be indoors now.

Watching a programme of a post mortem on a beached whale. but fascinating too.

having a bath

Listening back to a recording of my recorder exam pieces.... ouch!

Oh well, I still have a whole week left to sort them out. On the up side scales are going better than they were.

Watching TV with some wine to hand! No surprises there then!

Attempting to prove to helpdesk that me submitting a ticket saying "Oracle instance XXX is unavailable, preventing multiple users from working" doesn't mean 'I entered my username and password wrong'.
I know they have to follow the form, but when I tell them that several of us are unable to work, it's hardly likely that it is my username and my password that is causing problems for the other people!

Trying to do something with my hair - having a very bad hair day!! It has suddenly gone where I can't do anything with it, don't you just hate it when that happens? Luckily I only have to wait until Saturday when I go to the hairdressers - thats if I can wait that long, at the moment I feel like giving it a shave and polish!!

ET

trying to persuade the dishwasher that it does have room for half a dozen more mugs

I've been printing organ music from the Werner Icking Music Archive, which rocksabit IMO. Indeed, I'm still on with such activity now!

Eating a Fig Biscuit

I guess we should at least give thanks that the world is now a Fig Biscuit down... One day they'll all be defeated!

I hope I can help. Yum!

You're welcome!

Watching telly, checking my emails, and moping but forums make me smile

Eating another fig biscuit !

Have you tried switching off then on again?

What, IT already suggested this?

They didn't this time. Last time someone had a problem with our development area, she reported it in to helpdesk and said talked through the problem and what she had done so far, and said that she had - as we are instructed to in the event of problems - rebooted her (VMWare) slice...and all heck broke loose! Helpdesk were demanding to know who trained her, who said she could reboot servers, who was the owner of her privilege access account, they were going to take it up with a Grand Fromage that we were breaking all sorts of compliance rules by rebooting our slices as we needed to without having a form signed by 18 senior vice presidents.
So actually, I was really looking forward to them asking me if I'd rebooted, but they didn't.

(And, on the earlier issue, there has been no comeback to anyway, so we can only assume that whoever got the call completely misinterpreted exactly what we mean by the reboot of a VMWare slice...)

Is that a like a cheese slice, just not as tasty?

Mmmmmm, Mr K's Bakewell slices...The best slice.

eating lunch

Ooooooooooooh, I'm going to demand cake next time starts banging on about our slices

Back on topic, having done battle with helpdesk, before I logged on the forum I was building a non-coronary revascularisation screen, so there. What I ought to be doing is going over to the comfy seats for my 'lunch break' and writing my intro/conclusion to my next OU assignment...

Idiots tbh, what's the problem with rebooting your own, self-contained virtual workstation/server.. it's not as if it's going to affect anyone else

Sleeping- I didn't get to sleep until 4, so slept through my alarms until waking up naturally at 1pm.

Returning from west London and a rehearsal with my accompanist.

My sleep pattern is all over the place and I'm suffering today.. I wish I had the luxury of being able to sleep until 1pm! You lucky so and so!

Well it comes from doing part time study, and not much else (I hope to start up teaching Maths/Music again next term if things continue to go well, but not quite yet).

I did used to have an awful sleep pattern where I would get maybe 2 hours sleep on a good night, then went out to college for the day, and then taught for two hours, before two hours of musical activities. That didn't end well!

Let's hope your sleep pattern sorts itself out soon.

Being on-call and woken up at silly o'clock hasn't helped I think I'll be ok in a week or so! Thanks, though!

Eating my third fig biscuit of the day !

I'm sorry but fig biscuits are just not right. Have you sought help for this affliction?

It's taken you nigh-on five hours to eat three fig biscuits? You are so restrained! Generally if we open a packet, they are gone within five minutes (but there are two of us...though being on my own probably wouldn't slow me down too much!)

Yes, have you thought about joining Figbiscuitaholics Anonymous?

Well they're only small ones. Just got three left for tomorrow. I dont' know yet if they have a laxative effect ! I will let you know !

It's fine, we don't need to know.

Just the thought of fig biscuits is enough. Euch!

I was in London, watching the people on the Plinth, looking at BP Portait Award paintings in the National Portrait Gallery, visiting the 7th July memorial in Hyde Park and generally walking for miles and miles and miles.

We really don't want to know if you end up pebbledashing the bowl

Drying off after getting soaked in the torrential rain we've just had. I had gone to a student..forgetting that we'd re-arranged the lesson for tomorrow instead. That will teach me to put things in my diary straight away.

At my father in law's funeral.

sympathies...

went shopping this afternoon. A bit more tired out than usual after. that was ages ago but I can't be bothered to put the stuff I did in between that and now 'cause it was boring.

Looking not unlike this : smiley!

Talking in Moink Language via a cow-pig to mwl1.

You 'eard.