Bah.
I have a university assignment due in today that, for a whole multitude of reasons, I haven't quite been able to finish. I've had to ask for an extension, which I really hate doing and have only done once before. It just leaves me feeling under even more pressure to not screw up the next assignment due to having spent too much time catching up on the current one.
This weekend I've got a two-day chess tournament that, for the very same multitude of reasons, I'm completely unprepared for. I haven't even played a single game over the past three weeks, so I would be entirely unsurprised if I came away with a score of zero. It starts at 9:30am tomorrow and could potentially go on until 10pm, only to start at 9:30am again on Sunday. It's going to be absolutely exhausting, and to be honest at the moment I'm not sure what benefit I'd get out of it. I was really looking forward to this back when I entered, but now that it's looming large in the immediate future I'm not particularly motivated for it.
Once that's out of the way, on Monday I'm having to fly out to Paris for a few days, on business. There's a French company with a product that we might become UK resellers for, so two of us are going over for some demonstrations and training and so-on. This wouldn't fill me with joy even at the best of times, but after the week I've had and an entire weekend of chess I'm not exactly going to be very enthusiastic about anything that involves using my brain.
And then I'll get home and wake up on Thursday morning to realise that I still have that assignment to finish. Hmmm. Splendid. I'm exhausted just thinking about it.
Anyway, after today it'll probably be Thursday before I'm online again... I may be on briefly on Sunday night, but I wouldn't bet on it. Have a good week, people.
This weekend I've got a two-day chess tournament that, for the very same multitude of reasons, I'm completely unprepared for. I haven't even played a single game over the past three weeks, so I would be entirely unsurprised if I came away with a score of zero. It starts at 9:30am tomorrow and could potentially go on until 10pm, only to start at 9:30am again on Sunday. It's going to be absolutely exhausting, and to be honest at the moment I'm not sure what benefit I'd get out of it. I was really looking forward to this back when I entered, but now that it's looming large in the immediate future I'm not particularly motivated for it.
Once that's out of the way, on Monday I'm having to fly out to Paris for a few days, on business. There's a French company with a product that we might become UK resellers for, so two of us are going over for some demonstrations and training and so-on. This wouldn't fill me with joy even at the best of times, but after the week I've had and an entire weekend of chess I'm not exactly going to be very enthusiastic about anything that involves using my brain.
And then I'll get home and wake up on Thursday morning to realise that I still have that assignment to finish. Hmmm. Splendid. I'm exhausted just thinking about it.
Anyway, after today it'll probably be Thursday before I'm online again... I may be on briefly on Sunday night, but I wouldn't bet on it. Have a good week, people.