I am so very tired again/still, and slightly stressed.

( List of stuff I need to get done before Monday night. )

Apparently, what I need to do to make myself less ill is arrange to go & see the doctor. Actually, it was a nurse that I saw. But she peered in my ears and throat and listened to my lungs. And apparently I have the classic symptoms of the current upper respiratory tract infection that's going around in this area, complete with the whole "not ( Read more... )

I finally managed to find the UK Guideline Daily Amounts for different nutrients (on a packet of Sainsbury's "Be Good To Yourself" oven chips, of all places!). The official table agrees very nicely with the one that johnckirk managed to put together from 3 different sources. Seeing that it's such a pain in the bum to get hold of, I thought I'd type it out ( Read more... )

I've known for years - nay, decades - that I am Not A Morning Person. I only realised how serious the issue was when I attempted to go back to full-time work. I am so very Not A Morning Person that it is impossible for me to maintain a "normal" sleep-wake cycle. This is a statement which no one else has the right to argue with, by the way. Believe ( Read more... )

Note to self: do not attempt to make over-complex rail journeys on a bad pain day while premenstrual & short of time. It leads to expensive mistakes.( Read more... )

It has been a very pear-shaped weekend, with intermittent good bits. Both Alexa & Ludy ended up staying over at my place on various nights without having previously planned to.

Alexa came up on Friday to deal with the Random Artificial Emergency that occurred; and the traffic was so, so bloody awful because of the bad weather & flooding that the ( Read more... )

For future reference: Do not attempt to go anywhere by motor vehicle on Canada Day ( Read more... )

I have been having a Bad Day. Today I got very, very lost, multiple times, while trying to find a student's new house. The Transport for London Journey Planner and its esoteric routing system didn't help in this. As well as coming up with extraordinarily elaborate routes to save all of 2 minutes, it was coming up with crazy-ass ideas like getting ( Read more... )

Today has been one of those days where everything I did to try to save time ended up taking me longer than if I'd done it the "long" way first.

1. I had to get someone's address to write on a parcel. I thought it would take too long to switch on the laptop and wait for it to boot, so I went to the linux computer downstairs which is always on. However ( Read more... )

Hooray! I'm only 60 entries behind with livejournal. Have caught up on "business" email too, and only have "pleasure" to deal with. Yay!

To do tomorrow: Get up early enough to buy cow milk, soya ice cream & innocent strawberry-nana smoothie and pay two cheques into the bank before work, which requires me to be in Malden Manor (a place ~45 minutes ( Read more... )