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Dec. 7th, 2011 08:17 amToday's list beats all my earlier ones hollow. It's a list of things that must be done by 9 am and it's the same length as my usual list to cover a day and I've only done three things on it and I want to go back to bed. This is because today is a long day and all must be done. It's a good day, for I'm introducing my class to Ekaterina Sedia along with the quantum physics (it's a very natural pairing, to my mind) and we're doing more nonsense poetry.
This afternoon my work experience students appear, as if by magic, and work hard. One of them will be interviewing Felicity Pulman, so watch this space. While they work hard I shall make inroads on my new list for this afternoon, which is not yet written. What I've done instead is a list for the travel time between here and teaching.
Just in case anyone is wondering in which direction I am listing, I would like it to be leftish, but today it's really direct north/south.
In my next life, I shall belong to a majority religion/culture and lots of other people will have big deadlines for their holy days (impeded by no-one else taking holiday and with the holidays themselves spattered with phonecalls by people who have forgotten that it's the season of cheer) and then, a couple of months later, the need to prepare for the rest of the country getting summer holidays plus holy days/holidays.
I have more work than usual this year, for reasons entirely independent of majority culture/religion, but it's been brought forward a few weeks because people around me are much clearer about them avoiding phonecalls and work during their silly season than they are about me avoiding the same during mine. I'm already having to plan for this time next year, for this reason.
This year I'm not (so far) bitter about it. Instead I'm making lists. It's hard to be bitter when I'm actually well enough to attend a couple of parties, and I'm getting Christmas with friends and I have other friends to see over Chanukah. It's not hard, however, to be overworked. Back to the lists!
This afternoon my work experience students appear, as if by magic, and work hard. One of them will be interviewing Felicity Pulman, so watch this space. While they work hard I shall make inroads on my new list for this afternoon, which is not yet written. What I've done instead is a list for the travel time between here and teaching.
Just in case anyone is wondering in which direction I am listing, I would like it to be leftish, but today it's really direct north/south.
In my next life, I shall belong to a majority religion/culture and lots of other people will have big deadlines for their holy days (impeded by no-one else taking holiday and with the holidays themselves spattered with phonecalls by people who have forgotten that it's the season of cheer) and then, a couple of months later, the need to prepare for the rest of the country getting summer holidays plus holy days/holidays.
I have more work than usual this year, for reasons entirely independent of majority culture/religion, but it's been brought forward a few weeks because people around me are much clearer about them avoiding phonecalls and work during their silly season than they are about me avoiding the same during mine. I'm already having to plan for this time next year, for this reason.
This year I'm not (so far) bitter about it. Instead I'm making lists. It's hard to be bitter when I'm actually well enough to attend a couple of parties, and I'm getting Christmas with friends and I have other friends to see over Chanukah. It's not hard, however, to be overworked. Back to the lists!