Never again will I do something this foolish – I refer to the work I wrote about yesterday. I was up late, and then started work before breakfast – not as early as I planned, but still before breakfast. Thank heavens for the time difference. I sent off what I had and was very plain […]
Desperate working
I took on something I really shouldn’t have. When I am already overloaded with work I agreed to edit a research report on a topic with which I am completely unfamiliar, written by 6 different people none of whom have English as a native language (and none of whom share a language with each other), […]
Ground down
I am feeling rather ground down today. Oppressed particularly by work, as I have taken on too much, but also by the grimness of the world so that I can’t bear to listen or read the news, or anything to do with politics and society. Even the magazine is making me feel raw – not […]
Focus, focus
Work is growing critical and today, finally, I managed to spend a good bit of time and write several chapters. Still less than halfway, but I think I might be able to finish the first draft by the end of tomorrow. Aside from work, today the GF and I took a short break for coffee […]
Unburnt beans
Today I tried cooking the final third of the white beans I had bought late last week. The first two times I forgot the pot on the stove and they burnt, and needed a good bit of scrubbing with baking soda to get the black off. But this time it worked and they were very […]
All nighter
I had a rare all-nighter last night, only a couple of hours of sleep, as I scrambled to finish work and send it off. I am not used to such nights these days, I found it much easier in Malaysia when they happened every so often. Well, I finished and the work is gone and […]
Rare earth
One day is much like another these days, weekend or not. I was working today, unwilling and unable to make much progress. The sun was out, and we went for coffee in the late afternoon, taking a winding way back. Now I am working again as the GF cooks dinner. I listened to an interesting […]
More catching up
Sunday was another working day, to some extent at least. I have a very busy week coming up and as usual seem to have far more work than I have money. We did make it out for a coffee in the afternoon as the sky cleared and it was very sunny. All of Istanbul appeared […]
Catching up
I spent Saturday catching up – sending emails, confirming work, and catching up most of all with the magazine of which I am an editor and which had some lingering matters I’d been putting off in the general swirl of work. Otherwise, a fairly uninteresting day, with one great tragedy: my favourite cake shop no […]
Ugh
More expenses have emerged around the flat, and the GF and I are feeling rather tender of wallet at the moment. Not, perhaps, the greatest surprise – it would have been quite remarkable to get through this whole business under budget, but still unpleasant. Oh well. May they not snowball. Aside from a very long […]