Lots of people are saying January was very long, which I suppose it was, but with a great big deadline looming halfway through 2018 I fear this year may also vanish in the blink of an eye for me ( Read more... )

Do you think I can come up with an alliterative word meaning anxiety for every month this year? Because I'm slightly afraid it's going to be necessary until at least June (the current planned opening date for my museum ( Read more... )

I am finding September challenging in many ways. The whole back into termtime activities coupled with work continuing to be crazy busy with the prospect of it only really getting MORE busy steadily over the next... well I was going to say few months but probably the better part of a year ( Read more... )

Hello all, it's been a while again and the world has done another horrifying backflip which I feel like I ought to address here but I'm not at all sure how :-/

( Here's my week away in three pictures )

How is it Yuletide nomination times already? And what on earth were the things I wanted to nominate ( Read more... )

Today's XKCD is alarmingly true (and amusingly I first saw it when one of the Abbey clergy put it on facebook, he's meant to be on holiday but apparently it struck a chord ( Read more... )

Yesterday I took the day off to go and see the Ships, Clocks & Stars exhibition at the National Maritime Museum with my parents. I've been meaning to go for months but we could never find a weekend that worked and then I looked at the amount of TOIL I've accrued recently and realised I could just take a day off ( Read more... )

Quiet day today, it shouldn't have been but I think I might have been doing too much recently and basically the thought of bed & a good book overwhelmed my to-do list completely. Doing the bare minimum is sometimes important for staying sane I find.

And I have managed to tick off some things that had gone red on HabitRPG so I can feel a little ( Read more... )

Today might be Thursday but it feels like Friday because I've got tomorrow off work purely because it's the end of our leave year and I'm already carrying over the maximum without this day. What that ACTUALLY means is it's a day off with nothing I have to do \o ( Read more... )

Mostly I am fairly content on LJ even though I know people have moved on/post elsewhere/just read but every now and then I get a burst of intense sadness and the very early hours of Sunday morning I had an intense one when, at 2am, I finished watching The Day of the Doctor and came online to find a single, solitary post about Doctor Who and that ( Read more... )