State of the oursin

[oursin]

Well, I think I'm finally over the jetlag from hell, but it's hard to tell, because I have been sleeping so badly all this week...

Have booked a week away at Grayshott, further ahead than I would like, but I was just getting too stressed out at trying to fit it in any earlier, around existing commitments. Also, after the Monster Manchester Conference (even if I am only going for part of this) is probably a good idea.

Have also managed, finally, to book an appointment to use one of my vouchers for a discount massage, and perhaps should try and schedule in the other two over the course of the next month or so.

Am continuing rather irked at my inability to push to a further level in my gym workouts - I've been pretty much plateauing, and even temporarily falling back, over the last several months, and while I can see that all the health things at the end of last year meant I had to take it easy, I am getting rather narked at not making progress/getting back to where I was.

However, on a slight upside, I have buckled down to processing a collection that has been an elephant in the room at work for a long time - important but presenting a lot of problems to get into a state where it can be made available - and finding that it is not quite so terrible a task once I get down to it.

Currently dithering over a revived invitation to talk about something that, yes, I know something about, but basically because I've read or even reviewed the recent literature on the subject, it is not My Own Work, it would demand a certain amount of preparation, and while one wants to be obliging, especially as this is a colleague in the profession, I am getting less and less inclined to Do Stuff that is not either What I Am Currently Interested In, or something where I can recycle material I already have on hand and written up in some form.

More narkery over 2, count them, 2 conferences that I have put in proposals for that have not yet come back to say yay or nay.

Yes, my dearios, the peeves and their little niggles are way restless and fretting at this moment in time.

Comments

[mrissa]

I understand firsthand how frustrating it can be to not be able to push another level in workouts, but yeah, health stuff really can suck that way, and beating ourselves up over it doesn't actually help a lot. Hang in there.