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My little list says I have nine things that must be done and that most of them must be done by 3 pm. One of them, however, may have just been delayed by a week (problems with a computer's ability to talk to the net in the US). This means I have eight things and a sudden temptation to see if natural attrition takes all the others...

Also, I want to go back to sleep. This is because I've been writing/editing during the mornings and afternoons on Tuesday and Thursday and teaching in the morning and then editing on Wednesday late afternoon until late evening, and then doing other work on Tuesday and Thursday evening after teaching. Last week I couldn't work out why I am so exceptionally tired on Fridays, for six hours teaching is not a great deal. I wasn't counting the normal day's work on top of the teaching, however.

I suspect I need to warn people that I shan't be doing a normal day's work on top of Saturday's teaching. I shall blog and I shall deal with urgent email and I shall probably leave it at that. Which reminds me, I'm going all high tech tomorrow and need to prepare my projections onto a USB. It's going to be a lot easier to copy my whole picture library there than to sort through it in a measly fashion, for I shall need it again next week and at Conflux. This is because I shall be teaching writers how to shortcut research, for I am a strong believer that laziness (and I am naturally lazy) should never interfere with quality of background work.

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We have Weather. It started yesterday, in dribbles of change and today it's the cold end of Spring. Lots of wind and rain and aches. I'm 40% through my must-do-or-else-I-die-in-a-heap list anyway and intend to assist the rest along with much coffee and perhaps some panadeine.

Anyhow, Spring is coming to the southern hemisphere, just in case anyone was in doubt about it. I don't know if I'll resume my weather prediction service, but I can't help thinking that I should do a question and answer post just after Conflux. Conflux is a month away, so there's heaps of time for people to think up questions I can't answer.

A cousin has apparently just moved to Canberra. In fact, he is my stepfather's brother's grandson as well as being my great-uncle's great-nephew. He doesn't yet know me. I do hope, for his sake, that he has a sense of humour. His grandfather does. He and I huddle together with my uncle at family events and say things we really ought not say. I've messaged him on FB, and, just in case he's checking out his mysterious cousin, let me say "Hi Stefan" and "I'm a nice person, mostly."

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I have spent a couple of hours in the Middle Ages today, done my teaching prep for tomorrow, sent my first job application*, spent two hours on my dissertation (which is technically finished, but cleaning up is a forever-job), redeemed some promises, read half a book. I forget the rest. I did lots. I will do one more hour and then sleep, for tomorrow is bigger than today. It does, however include markets. As does Sunday.

Sunday includes markets and a friend, which is always a good combination. This means I shall start Spring off with far better food than I finished Winter, since it's largely been creative leftovers for days.

Whenever I go shopping right now I wince at the prices and only buy basics. For Sunday, I am not going to look at the prices, just for once. I am going to buy fresh produce, mostly straight from the farm or artisan. I'm hoping that lunch will be my favourite duck pate on my favourite Italian bread, with olives on the side and a nice salad of heritage vegies. We shall, however, see, for it depends on who is there.







*Don't get too excited. This could take a while. I'll update if anything major happens.