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Today I'm starting slowly. Very slowly. I've finally accepted that all the medical and dental stuff on top of the events of March mean that I need to be a bit gentler on myself. I'm physically a bit of a mess, in other words.

Today is a teaching day, and I hope to get a couple of those library books done beforehand. Tomorrow is another day in the dentist's chair. After tomorrow (with luck) I should be halfway through that side of things. All of this despite having had an early night and sleeping in. It's possible to rest and still move on with things. And if I say this often, I shall believe it.

The logical next step, alas, is that tomorrow evening I won't go to the CSFG meeting. This leaves me the same amount of work-time over two days, with luck. It also means I miss seeing a bunch of friends. Which means (all things have their consequences) I need extra coffee today, as a solace. Then I have an hour and a half with young Mr Wilde before I move back into study mode. I'd forgotten I actually promised two pieces on Oscar Wilde. This is good - with the same amount of reading, I can write more.

All I need is for my brain to get back into gear. It really doesn't want to.

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Some days I write angry posts and then delete them. Just writing the post helped me deal with the anger. One day I shall write a lucid and non-angry post on the subject, but today is not that day. Before those of you who worry start to do so, the post wasn't about me. Or not about the recent me. It was about protest and bigotry and closed world-views and their consequences.

That reminds me, I have that meeting at Parliament House next week. It's a consultation on racism. My past comes back to haunt me. And it's straight after another of those dental appointments, so my past will come back to haunt me and my jaw will be swollen. I predict an interesting - albeit unusual - day. Unless I move the dental appointment.

Does anyone want me to report on the meeting? Do the quieter aspects of government in Australia interest you?

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I've done 1/3 of my impossibly-behind reading. And I've taught. And one of my students was sad that Evil Teacher has only appeared once this course. And it's been a busy day and I still don't know if it's finished.

Still, I've done more of my articles and I've done some sorting stuff and checked a whole slab of books for the dissertation. I'm permitted fully five minutes of feeling smug.

Also, the next stage of the insurance stuff is finished and decisions have been made. These insurance people are very, very good.