Holidays List of Fun

[natasnape]

The year 2010 is finally out of the way, and I, like several others on my f-list, am most happy to see it gone. The first days of 2011 already brought the most welcome reprieve. My holidays started. My sole intension for the next month - yes, I'm wasting most of my precious holidays allocation all in one lump with disregard to family contingencies, children's school breaks and medical emergences, because 2010 was ghastly - my sole intension for the next month is to have fun.

• Asimov: order missing books from the Robots-Foundation series, read them, write 20k characters
• Angels: my NaNo novel, unfinished, waiting
• Horses: Mr. N gave me a voucher for 10 horseback-riding lessons for Christmas in 2009. The planet alignment in 2010 did not give me that much Me-Time. I hope the voucher is at least partly salvageable.
• Karel Capek's Prize: read 50 short stories, submit the shortlist
• Millenium Trilogy - write 10k chars
• De-clutter surfaces - hall, kitchen, living room, bedroom, laundry room
• Mr. N's office: convince him to get a piece or two of new furniture, set up, organise
• News articles: get a photo taken for the column, send the whole things that's been sitting done on the hard disk for a year
• Residency permit: get a passport photo taken, get recent documents, get the bureaucracy off your back after two years living in this house
• Passport: travel to Slovakia to request a new one, pick up when done
• Post Magic In Your Veins to archives
• Write gifts for the Exchange Bingo - I'm very sorry to both the mods and my recipients for the long wait
• Be an endlessly patient mother and tutor
• Change all non-RL online activity to link to the gmail address - nearly done, but found out today that I've not been receiving alerts from LJ. Oops and sorry to everyone who found my silence rude.
• Sleep eight hours a day for as long as the body needs it

See? No work in there. Okay, I lied.

• Supervise exams for students on the 17th and 21th. Input marks into the system.

But other than that, I should be able to have the month off. My desk is clear for the time being. A professor already requested my attention and a meeting because of a work-fic new to LJ I sent on New Years Eve, but I refused him. Little Nata is daring. Saying no to a prof.

Ah, well. I will deal with the consequences in February. Till than, eight hours a day of unconditional free-time are scheduled.

ETA: Seconds before shutting the notebook, I received this email:

~Dear Nata,

Happy New Year!

Thanks very much for correcting Fig. 1 and for doing the Endnote Library - it's all
hugely appreciated.

All the very best for 2011,

Professor in charge of work-fic N~

*grins* That would be a different project off my desk than the one above. This professor dumped a pile of last-minute menial labour on my shoulders on the 23th. But, finally, he seems to get that I AM NOT AVAILABLE NOW. *double grin*