Mid semester breaks start tomorrow, but mine has started today: an enforced day off. Bugs!! Don’t you just hate those Stoics who go into work however unwell they are. I know exactly who gave me this cough and if I wasn’t feeling so dire I’d be tempted to go and complain.
So, here I am, at home on a Friday lunchtime when I ought to be coming to the end of a class, wondering whether I’ll have time to eat in the 15 minutes before the start of the afternoon class. It’s overcast and cold in that dead draining way that always accompanies a grey sky. Next week I fly away to Fuertaventura, and it all seems so unlikely that I’ve had trouble making such requisite arrangements as booking the dogs into kennels, and ensuring my travel insurance is up to date.
Today is not helped one iota by the fact that I’m very very tired, and would have been very very tired even without a cold as I worked through the night on Wednesday, after weeks of getting up to write at 4.30 am, before school, and an all-night stint last week the exhausting effects of which took three days to wear off. BUT I finished the MLitt and submitted last week; and yesterday finished an assignment for the MSc (on time- for once).
Disaster heaps on disaster however. The taps poured liquid mud yet again on Monday; poor B needed to see the vet on Tuesday; on Tuesday I booked the car into the garage for some work on the bumper to be carried out on Thursday and on Wednesday night had a small accident which meant the car needed more work – too much work for the original booking so it’s now booked in for when we’re away which meant hiring a car to get us to the airport … Berry needs to see the vet again next week, and I think Soot might be unwell too.
And …………………I have to complete both some editing and an essay before Monday and really haven’t the time to be unwell now!
Undoubtedly things will get better ~~~
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