State of the hedgehog: work eats my life
Ever since I returned from holiday, because other members of the dept are on leave/at conferences/on courses, I have been scheduled for some slot or other or on-call for public interface duties every day, a situation which pertains until the end of the month (I thought I had next Wednesday free, but that was because I'd failed to copy the relevant duty slot into my diary). Frazzle frazzle. This week hasn't been as bad as last, when the rare materials area was not only frantically busy as regards archival and manuscript matters, but we were also covering for two other depts depleted by leave.
In spite of which, I managed to complete a project that occured to me while I was on holiday of creating notional catalogue entries, with links, for our themed sources guides, so that people will actually find these overviews when doing a catalogue search (like what The National Archives does, sort of). Go me.
We have not yet received Exciting New Acquisition, because the auction-house, in spite of having received a munificent cheque, refuse to release it to anyone except the person who actually put in the bid. Who is on holiday. Until the end of the month.
I don't seem to be doing much else at the moment - am still plugging away at book I am supposed to be reviewing, which I find uninspiring, but realise that may because it was Not Written For Me, but people to whom, perhaps, the various madwomen described are not The Usual Suspects, yawn-yawn. Have managed to get the really really reduced version of an already highly synoptic encyclopedia article for the 'Concise' edition done and sent off.
Need to lose some weight (it's so not really true that calories consumed while travelling burn up faster).
Gradually getting back into gym routine disrupted by going away, viruses, etc, but seem to be making very slow progress.
Am currently making my way through the DVDs of Farscape, which I am enjoying, but not posting about as I feel I am really late to the party on this one.