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I keep finding unexpected things in my freezer. I don't know what they are, but they're exciting.

If I were dutiful and sensible and labelled things, then I would lose this joy. I would also lose the pleasure of not having to cook until Thursday in a busy week, for I would have used everything up in an orderly fashion like a well-organised, domestically-sane person.

The only thing I know about tonight's dinner is that it looks beef-based and solid and will almost-certainly go well with whatever exciting vegies need finishing up. And today's lunch is some kind of tomato soup, which might require goat's cheese. And both of them were precisely ready to be eaten, for it's time to get to the bottom of my freezer again.

I will be cooking on Thursday, for friends are visiting. Today and tomorrow, though, between teaching and writing and feeling fatigued, I'm very happy for the excitement that is my freezer.

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Only one more (big) thing to do and then I'm completely caught up with my series-of-unfortunate-incidents backlog. I haven't developed quite as big a new backlog as I might have, in catching up, though I admit, the rest of June is going to be exhausting. Still, two articles emailed today, including the one that shouldn't've been difficult but was (it wasn't the article - it was me).

I'm going to do something really unorthodox and take a break. The work won't go away, after all.

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Tonight's microwave surprise dinner looked beef-ish, but turned out to be crockpot chicken and vegies, with lots of ginger.

Tonight's Latin class went well and Latin is now finished with (nice students - I shall miss them).

I have a brand new list of writing tasks to be completed by 1 July. It started off at 20,000 words of work, but I did 1,000 at once and feel terribly virtuous.

I think that I need an evening off, if I'm to be awake to teach tomorrow morning. Teaching on Tuesday night and then first thing Wednesday morning is always draining and this is the 15th sequential week of it. I actually want to work (I have a new list! and deadlines!) but... tomorrow...teaching... Also, I was so tired in class tonight that I couldn't remember the word 'centrifuge' (which was my not-very-technical description of how Classical Latin works). I shall find a DVD and watch something very laid back. For I am a laid back person.