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Today I had a solid sleep-in. I really needed it, too. I've been overworking recently and today is my day off. If I announce it loudly enough it will remain a day off. I can't remember the last time I had a day off where work didn't invade.

Actually, work will invade tonight, but only for an hour. I have to recheck those edits and get the article back to the editor, since her deadlines are pretty horrendous and since things get frantic for a bit from tomorrow.

Sydney is warm and sunny and not nearly as pollenous as Canberra. Instead of hayfever I have a cold. The cold is overwork indicating that consequences are nigh, I need to schedule more time out, soon. I need to learn how to make days off last for a full 24 hours. My only thought about that so far is to change the clock to a 30 hour one. Anyhow, I slept in this morning - work didn't rear its head even once during that time!

What else will make your day more charming? The sun on the water would, if you were overlooking Sydney harbour. I will go enjoy a bit of gleaming and glitter for you.

Australian Speculative Ficton Blog Carnival

I thought I was leaving the Carnival with the stable computer and in immensely capable hands of Sharyn this month and I cheerfully went to Sydney. Sharyn turned out to be wonderfully capable - she managed to do the Carnival with the aid of just one person despite the fact that her computer swallowed her whole month's blog collection and 2 chapters of novel. The trouble was that the person helping her was Granny (her disreputable alter ego) and there are an awful lot of digs at me in this month's blog.

I don't know whether to applaud that she got the Carnival out despite everything, or to fret because Granny is a dangerous woman. I think I'd better leave it to you to sort it all out: http://eneit.livejournal.com/163984.html

Sharyn and Mark both did carnivals under pressure and with no help (in the form of useful emails suggesting posts) from the discerning public and without teh usual extensive backup from me. Thank you both - these last two months have been way overbusy for all of us and I really appreciate you letting me have that bit of a break.