Am now thinking I will definitely take time off sick next week.  I feel feverish, grotty and exhausted, and although in theory I could drag myself in and carry on in spite of it, this time I'm not going to.

I've worked out that I can afford to do this from the point of view of the number of days sick I've had this year.  And they will manage without ( Read more... )

I am so stressed.  It's horrible.  I'm due to go into work in half an hour.  I don't know how I'm going to cope today.  It's going to be a superhuman effort to stay patient and cheerful and nice.

It's been worse today because partner's not working at the moment and so he's been at home this morning with the tv constantly on.  Usually my Tuesday ( Read more... )

I've nearly got everything ready for going to my dad's tomorrow.  Will be meeting the nephews at the station.  I feel pretty anxious about the journey - just don't know what I'm going to talk to them about.  Hoping they will be plugged into ipods or busily texting on their phones and conversation will not be required!

I've decided not to take the ( Read more... )

Last night I tried playing poker for the first time.  It was just a friendly game at our local, where everyone paid £2.50 at the start for their chips.  I'm not totally clued up on the rules yet, and will brush up on them before I play again.  Anyway, people were willing to explain things as we went along, which was good.

Not so good:  several ( Read more... )

My new project is to try and devise a relatively simple way of notating music in braille.

My supportee (who is blind and a fluent braille reader) plays the keyboard.  She has a class once a week, and I try and do some practice with her too, though because of time constraints this only happens rarely.  Because she has no written form of the music she ( Read more... )

I'm on my second day of annual leave and it's marvellous.  My last day at work was pretty hellish, getting my supportee packed and ready to fly off to stay with her dad, plus the usual cooking and cleaning and paperwork and a lot of organisational stuff.  And all done under pressure of time because we had to be ready to go to her last keyboard ( Read more... )

We've got the computer back from the repair man, but it's still not right.  Keeps going to places I have not asked it to go, or saying links are broken when they are not.   It's just about usable - generally goes to the right place on the second or third attempt - but very annoying, and I fear it will have to go back for further treatment ( Read more... )

The computer's beginning to act up badly again.  Keeps taking me to ad sites instead of where I asked it to go.  I only managed to log on to Live Journal after about four tries.

I am hoping partner will take it to the repair shop this weekend.  (It's a bit heavy for me to take on the bus.)  I don't want a long period of not being able to use it ( Read more... )

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So I saw the consultant psychiatrist today, and he turned out to be an Unexpectedly Reasonable Man.  He listened, quite respectfully, and didn't just rubbish my opinions.

He asked a whole stack of questions, not just about my OCD, but about any other mental health issues I'd had, or that members of my family had had.  So I told him about my father's ( Read more... )