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Thursday, 28 February, 2008

Wednesday 27/2/08

Self-imposed rest day. I went out or did something almost every single day in the last week. Hence the need to be a hermit for at least 24 hours, preferably more. Hence me saying no to going to Luna Park with Ben and Fish (though it turned out that Luna Park will always be closed on Wednesdays). I slept in, finished reading The Complete Polysyllabic Spree (*sigh!*), ate lunch, caught up on my email and newspaper-reading (The New York Times and Salon.com) and spent the afternoon blogging.

Ben went to have dinner with Fish in the evening and watch Anchorman after we watched last week's episode of Numb3rs together. I watched last week's episode of House and this week's episode of House. Is it me or is the writing lagging somewhat? And this was before the writers' strike.

I am determined to go to bed early but cannot sleep so I watch the clock tick over to 12:30 am.

Thursday 28/2/08

I debated sleeping in instead of getting up at 6:15 but in the end I got up at 6:30 and was out the door at 6:45, taking my lunch with me. This meant, however, that I didn't read my Bible or pray, so when I got to work, I found where I was up to in the Robert Murray M'Cheyne Bible Reading plan and plugged all four passages into the ESV website.

I dealt with my email and a new pile of CHNs, then dealt with the other half of the Bible Brief (but I didn't finish until 12 pm). Guan was in and suggested lunch with Bec (who stopped by in the morning to show me the water feature in Mark's office) but I had a prior date with Elsie (aren't I popular!) It had been raining heavily in the morning but fortunately it lightened a bit by the time I had to go out—me in my pathetic little sandals. We met outside Ayam Goreng 99 and she gave me presents from Beijing—one of the mascots from the Beijing Olympic games (the red one) and a communist hat complete with red star for Ben (he looks funny!) We had a nice lunch together but it was interrupted by the tax office calling about the PAYG activity statement I submitted (apparently I stuffed it up which isn't surprising given the unhelpful operator I was speaking to). Then we headed back to work and Elsie returned our suitcase on wheels (which I wheeled all the way back to MM and put in the boot).

I thought I had finished all Briefing stuff (at least for the time being until Tony finishes his article). So I started installing Adobe Creative Suite (Jess's old copy) which I'd been meaning to do for ages but it takes an awfully long time. And Jess told me there was this cool purple velvet jacket at St Vinnie's so while the silly thing was taking ages to install, I walked up to the shops to have a look at it, and it was cool and it was only $10 so I bought it, along with a Dorothy Sayers novel for $2 (Unnatural Death; I've never read any Dorothy Sayers before and feel I ought to because she was friends with C.S. Lewis).

I returned in time for prayer meeting and then touched base with Tony about the Briefing afterwards, only to be told by Emma that the Briefing is due for layout tomorrow morning and not Monday as I'd previously thought. She did tell me that and I did change it on my wall copy, but for some reason I didn't change it in Google Calendar and I can't think why. I really must be losing it; I never used to be this scatty.

Because Tony was running behind, I offered to take on some of his editing load and then felt really stressed (which is kind of stupid because as if anyone is going to expect me to edit a 1500-word article by the following morning when I'm just about to go home!) In addition, I discovered I'd been knitting the wrong pattern in my Henry scarf (the one I was going to give to my father for Christmas) for the past 48 rows so that instead of a herringbone pattern, I was merely producing diagonals. I went to pull them all out (much to the chagrin of the rest of the staff) but then also realised that the Henry scarf was only 43 inches long when it needed to be 60. So, absolutely furious with myself (and yes, I did check the gauge so I have no idea what went wrong!), I ripped out the entire thing and now I will have to start from scratch. This is, let me remind you, the scarf where it takes me half an hour to do one row (it consists of around 168 rows).

There was one bright moment in my afternoon: the Vanguard emailed me to say I'd won a giveaway they had advertised in their last newsletter and so now I have a free double pass to see The Hampdens! And Ben said he'd come with me! (Despite not liking them very much and thinking that they're rather conventional ... Well, I really like “Asleep on the Lawn” ...)

I left at around 4:15 and tried to get to work again (in between making soya sauce chicken in the oven) but hunting for Easter Eggs on Facebook was just much more interesting (I now have 76!) Ben did the other half of dinner and we watched Numb3rs from last night but didn't finish in time to tape Law & Order so we will have to see the rest of that episode later. I spent the rest of the evening converting articles to HTML and putting them into The Longing.

And now, dear readers, it is definitely time for bed.

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