In a similar vein to the "What will you do when you log off" and "What were you doing before you logged on" thread, what are you actually supposed to be doing right now?

I'm supposed to be on a webinar at work. Well I am on it, but it was boring to start with and it has already over-run by 20 minutes. My already poor attention span has reached its limit and I absolutely have to find something to keep me awake!

I love this thread!

I'm supposed to work on a presentation which I should have finished last night

This is totally my kind of thread I'm SUPPOSED to be doing the 4 assignments that I have due over the next three weeks. The closes is Friday

Preparing for my viva and applying for jobs...

Revising for my theory exam, doing some housework and/or translating text from a musical into German for our Christmas concert.

I'm supposed to be working...since I'm at work getting paid for it

Come off it Viola-Mad. Do you really expect us all to incriminate ourselves ?

Doesn't bother me...I'm on half term holiday

Grr

I'm supposed to be working, but thinking "why bother?" tbh !!

oops, sorry!

I'll incriminate myself next week when I'm supposed to be preparing lessons

Actually, I've just realised...I posted this during my lunch break!

Ooh, sounds like you are ripe for the incriminating! Do tell us what you really ought to be doing!

I've done what I was supposed to be doing and it didn't sound very good so I stopped.

Aw If it was what I think it might be, I'd blame the reed

Not sure it was this time.
A bit of the struggling to get the fingers to do the right thing so everything else is wrong too.
Why does trouble with fingers cause everything else to tense up?

Usually it's because a bit of mild panic sets in, and that's guaranteed to cause tension. You've done I feel a good thing to take a break : you can always come back to it later.

No I can't. Going out to hear how a clarinet should be played.
Oh well, at least I sort of know what the problem is.
Maybe we can improve on things in the morning.

Later can be tomorrow, sbhoa Enjoy your gig, and your mouthpiece search tomorrow.

Finishing the shopping list

I hope you find the gig inspirational. Have faith in the power of a good night's sleep. It is amazing what your brain can sort out while you are sleeping.

And what my brain doesn't sort out my teacher can have the pleasure of trying to untangle in the morning.

She'll enjoy that

I should be practicing?

I should be sleeping...

I don't even get a half-term holiday! Stupid university. Well, I have 'reading week' next week, but I can't even go home for that because of rehearsals. And I've got loads of work to do. I am taking a one-night break to go to London though

Since I fell asleep at my desk earlier, I lost a lot of potential assignment time That's what I should be doing right now.

Well I'm here because I can't decide what I should be doing right now!

Possibly domestic admin: boring
or typing up hymn list for church: boring
or sorting out music for weekend: not so boring, but it requires decisions, and it is half term (as BC says)
or tidying up: always boring and never-ending.

So.......that's why I'm here.

Doing research for my coursework... It just ain't happening right now

Practising (can't be bothered) or revising (ditto, and it's boring)

I'm probably meant to be revising this half term too!

I really should be doing the washing up and putting the laundary away. However these are very boring tasks!!!

Sleeping (I have to be up early ).

Yeah I should probably be asleep too, but part of me doesn't really want to go back to uni tomorrow and the sooner I go to bed the sooner tomorrow comes.......between this and Mock the Week I've got plenty of excuses to pretend tomorrow doesn't exist!

Guess... Same as all my other posts on here

I should get my clarinet out but am a little bit nervous about the first practice session with my new mouthpiece.

Working

Stripping my bedding off, and putting it in the washing machine....think I'd better do it now, before mamma kills me

I have to finish an assignment that's due in before 5pm tomorrow; buy some ink so that I can actually print off aforementioned assignment (though I might just ask my friend if I can use her printer); buy a keyboard; analyse the exposition in Beethoven's Sonata Op. 10 no. 2; get started on my performance coursework because it's due in Monday week and I'm going to London on Thursday and Friday; aaaand order a particular book of studies that my oboe teacher wants me to get.

Oh, and I'm in desperate need of socks.

Nothing I have to leave to collect my son from his piano lesson in 10 minutes, and that's too short a time to do anything constructive (honest, it is). Not that being on here isn't constructive, sometimes...

Tax return
Practising for Saturday's Baroque afternoon
Practising for my next piano lesson
Practising for my next musicianship lesson

Not all at the same time.

Packing
Icing cakes

Piano practice

I'm in Honduras where I've just come out of a workshop and right now I should be either (a) getting some of the proper work done that I coudn't do during the day or (b) oboe practice. I brought my oboe with me but the rooms are really bare and I think the sound will just bounce off the walls and floor and amplify

Preparing for a very imminent 6 year old's birthday party! Aaaaargh!!

Going out for a meal but the person I was going with has had to cancel because she's ill. Oh well, there's always fish and chips.

Maths homework

Same as always - revision or music practice. I am doing a little revision on mymaths.co.uk at the moment though!

Writing a review of one of the most mangled, confusing, disjointed and badly written papers I've encountered for a while. What kinda lecturer sets this sort of thing as coursework?!



(More pertinently, how on Earth do they get through peer review without a note to the effect of "Please re-write with a sensible structure and in English, so I can tell whether your methods and analysis is actually okay or not!"

Getting ready to go out to a Halloween cabaret tonight! I just can't bring myself to dry my hair though. I hate drying my hair, which is why I rarely do it.

cooking tea ?