May. 4th, 2011
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May. 4th, 2011 06:45 pmDespite me not being born (if I'm not born by Friday, apparently there are problems but right now it's to be expected - the system is not nearly as fast as the post office lady encouraged me to think), today has been eventful.
More notgoodstuff, which almost goes without saying, this week. I'm not going to post about my state of physical well-being, for instance, nor that I really wish tomorrow's cardiologist appointment was over. I do, however, want to send a request out to the universe to all business owners to please, please never say "There are so many ways we can do this - we would love to have your custom and yes, we can do everything you need" and then find that a rather straightforward aspect of it is beyond your capacity when it's too late for your client to do anything but run with it (they're looking for solutions, but it could be a bit expensive, and, honestly, they shouldn't *have* to be looking for solutions).
In other news, the Conflux cookbook is progressing despite me. I taught this morning (mostly a revision class - and they all remembered every single rule for a sonnet! but we did manage a little history aside about the style of contracts in the Middle Ages and about indentured labour in 19th century Australia and how nasty it could be ie 'blackbirding' and why indentures were chosen to hide what was very close to slavery) and then I brought myself home and started to work, but I couldn't sit up straight and the rest of the day has been fudge. I have a couple of urgent things to do tonight, and then the rest of tonight will also be fudge. If I had a crystal ball, I would forsee much sleep in my near future.
Which brings me to the sad truth that a bunch of important things happened today and I have no recollection what they were. This is one of those times when I'm going to encourage friends to let me know what's happening in my life (preferably creatively - home truths are so not a good thing today) to replace my fudge brain.
More notgoodstuff, which almost goes without saying, this week. I'm not going to post about my state of physical well-being, for instance, nor that I really wish tomorrow's cardiologist appointment was over. I do, however, want to send a request out to the universe to all business owners to please, please never say "There are so many ways we can do this - we would love to have your custom and yes, we can do everything you need" and then find that a rather straightforward aspect of it is beyond your capacity when it's too late for your client to do anything but run with it (they're looking for solutions, but it could be a bit expensive, and, honestly, they shouldn't *have* to be looking for solutions).
In other news, the Conflux cookbook is progressing despite me. I taught this morning (mostly a revision class - and they all remembered every single rule for a sonnet! but we did manage a little history aside about the style of contracts in the Middle Ages and about indentured labour in 19th century Australia and how nasty it could be ie 'blackbirding' and why indentures were chosen to hide what was very close to slavery) and then I brought myself home and started to work, but I couldn't sit up straight and the rest of the day has been fudge. I have a couple of urgent things to do tonight, and then the rest of tonight will also be fudge. If I had a crystal ball, I would forsee much sleep in my near future.
Which brings me to the sad truth that a bunch of important things happened today and I have no recollection what they were. This is one of those times when I'm going to encourage friends to let me know what's happening in my life (preferably creatively - home truths are so not a good thing today) to replace my fudge brain.