Hedjog can haz....
Something that looks really, really like a conference paper! In fact, although I'd taken today off to slog at it, I read through the draft yesterday evening and it was pretty much to length and hung together better than I thought (anyway, it's the last paper of the last day: I think most people's critical faculties may be a bit dulled by then even if they're still around). So today all I had to do was a little bit of polishing. O twirl that ball on my nose and honk the motor-horns!
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This was probably just as well, as in connection with tiresome complication over a personal admin matter due to other people's incompetence, I had to expend time and effort today on going to an inconvenient branch of my building society with an approved form of ID in order to do something in connection with My Own Money.
However, I can haz address of complaints dept, for writing of stroppy letter to.
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Also can haz dongle for laptop! With the prospect of several days conferencing with dubious facilities for internet access (the dread words 'dialup connection' appear in the info on accommodation) I thought I might equip myself with PAYG mobile broadband in case I start jonesing. And after rather too much time and hassle (completely misleading illustration in 'Quick Start' leaflet about what goes where) I can haz connection!
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I have also made some small copy-editing amendments to essay review. And tinkered around with the paper that had been in limbo since some time in 2006 and came back with some totally inappropriate editorial emendations, which editors finally conceded I could replace with text of my own (but need to check a page ref or two, mostly from a book that I described as 'in press' at the original time of writing - I had read the ms). Also made start on another fairly informal piece I have committed to.
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Also have written a much overdue (embarrassingly so) letter of condolence to an elderly friend.
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So it has been one of those bitty and disrupted days but not unproductive.
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