The week before last I was rather on a roll, I thought, in terms of getting somewhat forrader on various projects in the pipeline -

And then last week I was drooping around feeling a rather sad miz weary hedjog, due to sleeping badly, which was mostly due to the achey bits deciding to be particularly achey or flaring up after having long been ( Read more... )

Got revised and trimmed draft of chapter for edited volume off to editors, who sound appreciative (even if I failed to quite grasp all the minutiae of the somewhat arcane bibliographic conventions in play, sigh).
Purportedly have a couple of web articles forthcoming shortly.
Feeling as if I don't have much on hand at present: there's the book for ( Read more... )

Got off my commentated version of an ms within my sphere of interest that I had been reading. Also got off a couple of emails in connection with outstanding projects, and revised an abstract and uploaded it to the relevant site.
Bought myself a new laptop! I have been less than satisfied with the Yogabook for some while, and have been havering and ( Read more... )

More queuing than last time, fortunately it was a nice sunny day as queue went right out round the corner into the street...
On the subject of vaccination, I forgot to mention, when posting last week apropos of Silas Marner, that the simple villagers of backwards Raveloe, well out of the hurly-burly march of progress of the day, nonetheless urge ( Read more... )

It's rather an Eeyore-ish time of year for me anyway, and this week I have been in rather lowered spirits, between sleeping not terribly well, and (relevant to that) having bad days for the neck and shoulder problems, and the horrible weather (as a result of which my daily walk is curtailed for reasons of mud), and partner having a cold, and a mild ( Read more... )

At least, that's how it seemed.
There was the flu jab accomplished (arm soreness gradually receding).
I not only finally rang the dental practice for an appointment for my overdue checkup, they managed to fit me in - with a new dentist, the former one having departed - this very week. (No work needed - yay!)
Organised jaunt to Scotland - I am ( Read more... )

That thing that happens, when at one point the thing I am writing is stuck and I am wondering why I ever committed to doing The Thing and I cannot make the leap to the next sentence or paragraph -
And then, not exactly suddenly, but within a short space of time, I am looking up and realising that the thing is pretty much finished, and there maybe ( Read more... )

Two research visits to libraries this week, both involving preorders, both involving microfilm (hiss, spit),* under the the time pressure of, oops, my chapter is technically due next month and I would like to have these last few cites checked -
And a couple of things that I had previously failed to get access to looked at.
And lo and behold, ( Read more... )

Got quite a bit done this week: more research completed at BL than I'd anticipated in the course of several brief dashes, even if I still have to finish organising the photos of documents.
Attended part of a conference and a seminar, and had a meeting about A Thing I've been asked to undertake in connection with Former Workplace.
Various calls upon ( Read more... )

But a few retroflections on the state of the me.
Well, that was the year that less than two weeks in my father died. Not entirely unanticipated, but still.
So, one of the things I did this year that I'd never done before was be an executor.
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Books read: 250 +/-
Non-home places where I spent at least a night: the family homestead, multiple ( Read more... )