shapeofthings | Seeing the light... (Reply)

This week I'm supposed to be working from home to write a conference paper and have some time to recover from 4.5 weeks in the field (where I accumulated over 2 weeks of over-time. Unpaid, of course). On Monday I spent 5.25 hours in the office. On Tuesday I went to the radiographers and the dentist and spent 4.5 hours in a meeting. Today I skyved off. My excuse: it's suddenly gone cold and rainy and it was too hard to fight the urge to hibernate. So the paper has not yet progressed beyond a sketch of the basic structure, and tomorrow I'm supposed to go into the city to sit in on an important discussion for a few hours. Erm...

Still, I haven't really been all that idle. Since field work finished I've:

* been to the doctor. I am now immune to the chicken pox, tetanus, polio and whooping cough.
* been to the dentist. My winsdom teeth stay, but I need 2 new fillings and an old one replaced (damn fluorosis)
* had my hair cut and returned to its natural colour (take that, sun)
* convinced Alex to solder the dodgy speaker jack on the PC speakers (aka house stereo) and car remote
* bought a new mouse and video card after the scroll wheel on old mousie died today (can't complain, it was a freeby 4 years ago - always be nice to the IT people)
* cleaned out the wardrobe and draws (and realised how few clothes I have that actually fit)
* been shopping for useful things
* spent some quality time at the cafe 'round the corner

Oh, the new video card is because the old one liked to throw tanties and get its memory worked up into infinite loops (bad video card, bad!), meaning photo processing was regularly interupted by icy freezes and teh BSoD*. Consequently I'd rarely process more than 3 photos in a sitting. The consequence of this consequence is a huge back-log of photos from the last 18 months and I'm fresh out of excuses.

At some point I really do need to write that paper though...

* blue screen o' death