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For another hour I am immersed in administrivia. I've already sent all sorts of drafted and completed documents off to all kinds of people who need them. I have just two more to revise and send, then I'm through this sequence of paperwork. Then I get to drop in on friends and deliver them things and after that, it's articles, articles, articles all day. The more articles I write, the easier my week will be. Tomorrow is Medieval, I think with more administrivia just to keep my life balanced. It would be a shame if my life were unbalanced.

In other news, Melbourne friends brought the cool Melbourne days with them. We need the rain, but it always seems to fall when I have no choice but to go outside.

The big news (in a small life) is that when I unbandaged my finger just now I discovered that the finger is almost down to normal size. I may need to rebandage it in a little, if bending is going to make it worse, but I'll give it some freedom, first. The infection is all gone, too. The aches in the rest of me are slowly going, and it's just a week since the accident, which means I'm healing rather nicely.

For my next feat, I shall issue stern instructions to the world to be gentle and generous for the next twenty years. I reckon I've earned that! In fact, give I've had 51 eventful years, I think the world should be gentle and generous for the same time again. Expect my next complaint when I'm 102.

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Just now I'm after almost any excuse to avoid doing any of the things I could do, from work, to dish washing to watching a DVD. I have deadlines, but they're all *days* away, and I'm still not wound back from the overwork bit. And, yes, I still hurt. The pain is winding down and as it winds down, the laziness winds up. What I want to do right now, in fact, is sit in front of an open fire with friends, roast chestnuts and tell really silly stories. Instead, I shall probably end up doing at least one or two of the things I planned to do. I shall just faff around a little, first. For I can, and it's only 10 pm and I have almost full use of all my fingers bar one so I have no excuses to avoid typing. I just have to haul my brain back from wherever it's gone wandering...