I emailed work last night to indicate that the possibility that I would be in this morning was remote, so that I didn't have to drag myself up to ring in (and find no-one actually at their desks) at usual starting time.

And slept through until

12.20 pm.

I guess I really, really needed that sleep.

A few links:

Vulgar greeting cards are a boom ( Read more... )

Posted a number of interesting links separately as a specifically IBARW post.

Article about Louis Grassic Gibbon's wonderful A Scots Quair.

Jenny Diski codslaps a couple of accounts of male middle-life crisis woez:
Both men are writing in and of their late 40s, complaining about finding themselves stuck in the human condition, suddenly aware that ( Read more... )

I have posted before, yeah, verily, probably at tedious length, about my tendency to say 'yes' when people ask me to do something (give conference paper, write encyclopaedia article or chapter in a book, read someone's ms, etc etc), whether or not this is a sensible thing to do. But this isn't so much about that, and I am getting better at saying ( Read more... )