Sleeeeepy....

[annwfyn]

I think I might be needing to slow down again. I woke up this morning at 8.30 and it almost hurt getting out of bed. It's now gone 10.30 am, I'm in the library, and I'm still half asleep. I actually managed to blank out a chunk of the drive from Reading to Oxford.

And last night was my night off!

This term is actually harder work than last term was. Last term I was on an essay every other week. This term I'm on an essay per week, plus I give an hour long presentation/discussion on the essay topic on Friday afternoon. I've got my dissertation to work on*, I've got two assessed essays to write, and as well as that I never entirely know where I'm spending my weekends.

Obviously, having realised this, I should now slow up, spend more time in Oxford, go out less, and work a bit more. Sadly, the next week looks at me. It looks, and it laughs. It chuckles and points to Sunday night being in London where I'm going to see Cirque du Soleil. It cackles and reminds me that Monday is my birthday and I've invited assorted people round to Chez Isalani for cake and more cake. It does a malevolent dance and points out that I have an Institute of Archaeology social on Tuesday and I have faithfully promised to be there, having missed the last two.

However, as of next Wednesday I faithfully swear that I will slow down a bit, work more, spend more time with my books. Erm. Except for the weekend afterwards which is a London weekend with possible visitors from many miles awa...

So. One day? Perhaps? I will slow down. In the interim I'll just crawl away to my nice dark and warm lecture room.

Oh - and current plans for Sunday lunch involve meeting at the Haagan Daazs cafe around noon in order to leave at 12.30 to look for a nice Italian restaurant as there seem to be a fair few in the area and I really fancy a nice lasagne. *nods firmly* I hope to see people then.


* which is actually going really well. Carlisle is the most wonderous place ever. I'm sure no one has ever said that before. Neither is it normal to do happy dances over bits of broken brick with motar attached

Comments

uurrmmm...

[vilenspotens.livejournal.com]

If I get back from Reading in time count me in, otherwise, um... don't?

Re: uurrmmm...

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

If you can make the Leicester Square area for 1 ish and have a mobile you could come find us in a restaurant? I'm not intending on eating before 1 ish. I just figured I needed some time to wander around and find somewhere nice.

Or can you think of a nice Italian restaurant in london?

Re: uurrmmm...

[vilenspotens.livejournal.com]

That may work better, will do my best.

Italian? Not yet, but it is something I'm working on. Investigation could be good

[chrisvenus]

Why does it sound like you are just lying to yourself? If you wanted to slow down you could. Yeah, london on sunday is fair. But you could have organised a birthday meet in oxford, you don't need to do the "London Weekend"...

I'm just slightly cynical because you keep saying that you will slow down more but you sound like you are still doing the three city thing. I'm goign to stop having sympathy for you soon, especially if you are still being bad when the work load is increasing.

Good to hear that the dissertation is going well though. I've seen how stressful they can be while others are doing them. :)

[twicedead.livejournal.com]

Professor Robert Winston said last night that if you can't remember part of a journey you were probably asleep for it. Bad Sally. No Crashing.

I should be there on Sunday and Jo's presence depends on how hard she works Saturday night because she is a mad working obsessive.

[aardnebby.livejournal.com]

Oh dear... I hope sleep situation improves! *hugs*

[headinclouds.livejournal.com]

Carlisle is the most wonderous place ever

You do know it's the place that spawned f33b, right? ;)

[cairmen.livejournal.com]

"Archaeological excavation reveals ancient prophecies encoded in what was previously thought to be graffiti, revealing that at the end of the Second Millenium the "Uncontactable One" will rise, lo, about 5 in the afternoon..."

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

Cirque du Soleil aren't playing Oxford. This would make a birthday meeting in Oxford a little bit pointless. Cirque du Soliel are, however, showing in London.

*ponders*

To a certain extent you are being sensible. I do know on some levels that I ought to stop doing the three city thing. I successfully managed that for the second half of last term, and was much less tired. It's only been the last three weeks that the travelling has been creeping up again and I've been feeling it.

I don't quite know how to re-organise myself. The original plan was that I'd cut out Reading from my schedule and just do weeks in Oxford and weekends in London as jez moved up. However, he's still shuttling between London and Reading and it's all been rather complicated.

*bows head dutifully to Chris*

Stern-ness entirely justified tho.

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

It is also the place with remains of roman fountains which were still working in the 7th century. It says that my dissertation isn't total insanity!

[chrisvenus]

the birthday thing I was talking about was the monday one when I assume you're back in oxford for working in the day and then presumably heading away from oxford and then coming back again that night or next day...

As you say, if you're in london for Cirque du Soliel then it makes sense to meet up with people there.

[chrisvenus]

He was probably talking crap though. I can't remember most of my journeys to and from work but I'm pretty sure I was awake for them. The reason I don't remember them is because they were dull and unimportant. Never trust these people. :)

[twicedead.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but as Sally commented on this, it probably isn't that common and represents a significant change in behaviour, not a regular "I never remember my journey" thang.

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

No kitchen in Oxford. Nowhere to bake cake or make milkshakes. Only option would be going out, and jez wouldn't be able to stay over due to needing to be in work the next morning. I'm not needed in Oxford until Tuesday evening.

I kinda liked the thought of being able to see my boyfriend on my birthday and it seemed rather harsh to make him do a commute when he does need to work the next morning and I am not in quite such a state. ;)

*ponders*

That's another thing. I travel a lot, but jez travels more. Fairly relentlessly. At the end of the day I can drive somewhere with books and get some work done in a lot of places. It's tiring, and I think I probably do need to cut back a bit, but it's still more feasible for me to get to where he is than it is for him to get where I am. That is what fuels most of my travelling.

As of February 20th things will settle a fair bit as he'll be in London instead of living in two places. Two cities I seem to be able to cope with fine - as I've said the second half of last term was alright. It's just when it hits three that I start getting the fatigue thing.

[headinclouds.livejournal.com]

lol

I did poke him about getting in touch with you last night, I really did. But he just muttered something about how people should e-mail him, and then went back to making feeble noises.

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

It also might be worth noting that it is only in the last week and a half that the fatigue thing has started to crop up again - hence me commenting on it. I haven't been staggering along in a state of exhaustion since I last hit issues. ;)

[chrisvenus]

Well, I still think there must be easier ways to do things than you are doing but its not really my business so having said what I have I shall let you do as you will. Hopefully things will get better after 20th February but I'm sure you've said similar things before... :)

[chrisvenus]

That may be true. Unfortuantely I was respondign to your summary of what was said and having had it generalised to me that much while as a Speed Awareness Scheme I thought I'd share my thoughts. There we were basically told that if we couldn't remember a journey we obviously weren't paying attention. I think that it is more likely that nothing happened that is worthy of note. I didn't bother arguing with that guy though because I believe he had the power to "fail" me on the course and thus I'd get three points on the licence in a very bad way... :)

[headinclouds.livejournal.com]

Good, good, we like to hear that you aren't writing a gigantic pile of dribbling nonsense. ;)

But still.... Carlisle? Really?

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

I did say that I'm sure I'm the only person to wax lyrical about Carlisle, ever.

I am pretending it was clearly a much nicer place in the 5th century.

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

They DID get better last time! I cut out London from my three cities place and just lived in Reading and Oxford. That was FINE.

Then the new term started and it's all become more complicated. From what I can tell I'm fine bouncing about between two cities and working lots. I also seem to go from 'absolutely fine' to 'shattered all the time' with no pause in between, which makes it hard to work out limits.

Of course the really scary thing is that I'm in week 3 already, and so once I get through next week term is half over already. I do find Oxford terms terrifiying in that way. Furthermore, I'll be entirely done with tutorials and lectures. In third term all I have to do is research work. Tis very very scary.

[taimatsu]

So that's Leicester Square, this Sunday (6th), 12 noon, right? I can do that, believe. Robert will have to answer for himself :)

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

Yes. That's the plan. Shall see you then!