I need to get some help with sleeping.  When it gets to the point where four hours appears to be a "good night's sleep," then surely there is something that can be done ( Read more... )

Suddenly there are hints of summer. I've come full circle, like the seasons. Work is not as much fun as it should be; I have taken too much other stuff on. I have left myself no time to write here. Fallen out of the rhythm of updating my livejournal on the tube on the way in to work. I thought that having wifi underground would free me, ( Read more... )

It seems to be the only chance I get to sit and write; the solution appears to be getting up earlier and earlier. Is there news? Not really. Still looking for a new job. I really like the one I am doing but it only pays enough to cover the bills. The car failing its MOT (likely) or another dental extravaganza (hope not) and we're screwed. ( Read more... )

Well this weekend has been a total write-off. The plan to visit larpcon yesterday and spend today working on writing up literature review[1] has been replaced with being ill in a household full of people being ill. I am still ill ( Read more... )

Today I am tired. The sort of tiredness that feels like jetlag. The extra hours awake are sitting heavy and it feels like I am under water the whole time. Words are getting confused between my brain and my mouth. Three times today I have had to rewind and try to get the correct sentence out because the lips that move belong to a stranger ( Read more... )

Victoria Jane Ashton

Died February 14th, so many years ago

Traffic jams. My journey in to work has extended beyond the sixty minute mark and it is starting to "do my head in" (which is a phrase I love ( Read more... )

I did my tax return in plenty of time. I still have to pay them the money, but I have put a reminder in my outlook to do this on Friday (by which time they could have confirmed the calculation for the amount I owe them.) It seems strange to be ahead of the curve rather than trying to do it in a blind panic scant minutes from the end of the ( Read more... )

So I am into the second year of my PhD now (although, as I am studying part time I’m still sort of in my first year - if that makes sense?) I have a deadline in April during which I need to demonstrate progress, there is a form to fill out, a draft chapter to deliver, and a project plan showing how I am going to get from where I am now to where I ( Read more... )

I woke up early this morning, around 3am early, and spent the rest of the night in a complicated and uncomfortable state where I fought insomnia and lost. As today is a working from home day I was able to stay in bed until almost 8am, thus making up some of the shortfall; the rest I am trying to mitigate with coffee and ibuprofen ( Read more... )