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Sep. 6th, 2005 11:07 pmMethinks I'm turning into ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
badgermonkey. Now I know what it feels like to have a life! You only ever get a chance to zoom by LJ for a brief minute and then you're zooming off again to do things Away From A Computer (omg @£$ liek domlij %^&).
I would have a zillion things to report, muse and rant about had I the leisure, inclination and virtuality but ack (hah, I still remember some online expressions, at any rate!), it's my bedtime, and (shock) that is Before Midnight (also a scary indication of Real Lifeness! I remember times when I typed away at this computer until 2 or 3 a.m.).
In brief, though:
* parents' anniversary in Holland: absolutely fantastic and wonderful
* state of mind vis-à-vis my place of work: Buddhist numbness and mild detachment towards colleagues who are (still) foaming at the mouth
* children's returnedness to respective schools: very good, so far, both happy; eldest one ecstatic about his private school
* continuing warm glow from holidays in Provence, Herefordshire and Holland
* FlyLady: continues apace and I love her!
* planning to devote more time to teaching and preparing teaching
* hearing, thinking, talking and reading about New Orleans
* efforts to continue writing book: steady and dogged but not fun
* radical new plan (lightbulb moment that hit me on Monday a.m.): I will survive these next 12 weeks, then I will have a sabbatical for eight months (whee); I will endeavour to finish my book in that time; if after those months I have not found another and better-paid academic job in London, I will leave academe. We need the money, and my non-enthusiasm for my book over the past two years makes me think that maybe my time in academe may be over, just as my time in Lotrips is over.
badgermonkey. Now I know what it feels like to have a life! You only ever get a chance to zoom by LJ for a brief minute and then you're zooming off again to do things Away From A Computer (omg @£$ liek domlij %^&).I would have a zillion things to report, muse and rant about had I the leisure, inclination and virtuality but ack (hah, I still remember some online expressions, at any rate!), it's my bedtime, and (shock) that is Before Midnight (also a scary indication of Real Lifeness! I remember times when I typed away at this computer until 2 or 3 a.m.).
In brief, though:
* parents' anniversary in Holland: absolutely fantastic and wonderful
* state of mind vis-à-vis my place of work: Buddhist numbness and mild detachment towards colleagues who are (still) foaming at the mouth
* children's returnedness to respective schools: very good, so far, both happy; eldest one ecstatic about his private school
* continuing warm glow from holidays in Provence, Herefordshire and Holland
* FlyLady: continues apace and I love her!
* planning to devote more time to teaching and preparing teaching
* hearing, thinking, talking and reading about New Orleans
* efforts to continue writing book: steady and dogged but not fun
* radical new plan (lightbulb moment that hit me on Monday a.m.): I will survive these next 12 weeks, then I will have a sabbatical for eight months (whee); I will endeavour to finish my book in that time; if after those months I have not found another and better-paid academic job in London, I will leave academe. We need the money, and my non-enthusiasm for my book over the past two years makes me think that maybe my time in academe may be over, just as my time in Lotrips is over.
