I told my supervisor I need deadlines, so he’s given me the choice of two: either next Monday or next Tuesday. This was supposed to help. So far, it’s nearly ten o’clock, I’m not ready, and I’ve played two games of the evil DTD. I have written out a timetable/things to do list for the day, but I’m behind schedule already.

I’ve also been writing 1000 words a day, although whether they mean anything together or not is a different matter. I review them the next day, and rewrite them, generally. Yesterday, I didn’t write anything because I was worried about my poor cat.

From the last list of things to do, I did no.1, the Albright paper, some of no.2 (Chapter 1 exercises) and made a messy start on no.4 (expenses claim).

I’m so hopeless at expenses forms, and I’m always extra-wary of them, from the time when the company I used to work for was relocating. I had been house-hunting in the new area, and could claim it all back, so I filled in the form as best I could - I’d never had cause to do such a thing before then. I got summonsed to Finance, such as it was, and told I’d done it all wrong, and that if I was going to move, and continue working with the company, I had better start toeing the line or some such. I thought that was a bit harsh - it’s not like I’d deliberately sabotaged the form. And to add insult to injury, she didn’t even bloody move either!

Today’s list of things to do is:

1. Put off doing the expenses form;
2. Wash and dry the bed clothes for the spare room;
3. De-cat the the spare room duvet;
4. Make up the spare room bed;
5. Go to Bar Hill Tesco and buy some food (I’d like to support our local, independent butcher’s, grocer’s and greengrocers, but they’re all amalgamated into a little Tesco);
6. Read the section on verbs in the Catalan book.

I think I’ll be good at doing no.1, although maybe if I’m not meant to be doing it, I will do it…

1. Albright paper
2. Exercises for Chapter 1
3. Catalan verbs
4. Expenses claim

I should be doing the following:

• filling in expenses claims forms for conferences;
• reading a paper by Adam Albright;
• food shopping;
• the washing;
• some tidying up.

I am doing none of these things, some of which I should have been spending rather a lot of time on. Certainly more than the day and a half I have left to spend on them. If I do others, then it cuts into my time for doing the lengthy, deadliney things.

What I have actually been doing is the following:

• blogging (faffing with WordPress rather than writing actual posts, mainly);
• doing websites:
  • my own:
    • personal;
    • university;
  • YEMM;
• looking at sofas on the Internet;
• general miscellaneous stuff.

Not very good, although I was supposed to be doing the YEMM website.

See yesterday and add:

1. Return Mother’s phone call.
2. Put the dry washing away.

I’ve been so tired from last night, I haven’t really done much at all. Shocking, really. I have:

1. Limpiado el vómito del gato.
2. Done 3/5 words and definitions for Spanish homework, but it didn’t matter in the end. I told the teacher, “podría pensar de tres no cinco,” and she said it was ok.

I’m still tired now, so I’m off to bed in a minute. C is dishing up some lambsagne and salad (good boy!) for his tea, but I’m not going to have any because I really can’t be bothered. I had some nachos and dips earlier though. Apparently, the lambsagne is nice.

C thinks it looks wrong to spell lambsagne with a ‘b’ but it looks like I’ve typoed it if I spell it as lamsagne, which is how I imagined it would be spelt before I typed it. I’ll write lamsagne from now on, I think.

After yesterday’s lack of doing all that much, and what with staying in bed all morning due to being tired from last night’s beer (although I only had 5 or 6 pints, I think. I’m such a wuss these days, it’s scary), I haven’t done anything at all yet. I’m not even clean and shiny yet! Still, never mind. Today’s list of things to do is:

1. Domestic Goddessicity:
   1. Tidy up.
   2. Hoover.
   3. Possibly sort out that bloody cupboard in the kitchen.
   4. Take the washing out. Hang the washing up - it’s already been taken out and was sitting behind me all this time. Duh. Wait for the washing that’s already hanging up to dry properly, then hang the washing up to dry.
   5. Go to Grumpy’s.
2. Upload Portuguese stuff.
3. Modelling of Bininj-Gunwok using xfst (for an hour or so).
4. *** Do Spanish homework. ***
5. Work through word-to-stem rules for LAGB.

I saw some of my friends last night in the pub, but they’re not a happy bunch, due to the company they work for doing their usual. The bastards. (The company, not my friends.)