Saturday

I am working away!

I started at ten with a view to finishing at 2... 4 hours doesn't sound that long but then I shan't finish until 2... which is very long! I have been pretty engrossed though so the time is, unfortunately, flying by. I say unfortunately because I am not likely to get the last agency synopsis done. I have to write about 1000 words for each - so for this chapter that is going to be 5000 words before virtually any analysis has been done! As a consequence, although I am aiming for an 8000 word chapter, I think it is more likely to finish at 11,000, and then 10,000 with some ruthless editing. Basically I have to summarise their presented sense of 'self' through discourse, and then overview all of their reports and evaluations for this particular issue and then analyse what this represents for the agencies as a group. And this is just one third of the chapter! The rest is more analysis again. So I think one starts to see why it is taking soooooooooooo long to do! Each agency takes about 4/5 hours to write out. Not including the fact that I can't just sit down and dive in but always have to re-read previous work to edit and see how the chapter is flowing.

I haven't heard from my Sup today yet which either means he has a life and is out and about away from the computer, or means that he has read the intro I sent as he said he would yesterday avo and is fine with it so not keen to send me an email saying as such. I think in this case it is no news is good news - if it was tosh then he would have emailed me and stopped me in my tracks I am sure.

Maybe I am just deluding myself though?!

After 2 I have to go for a run for 6 miles. I don't mind but if I didn't have this half marathon coming up I probably wouldn't go. I am a very lazy person on a Saturday and like nothing more than to eat eggs and toast in different combos, read the paper and watch tele. Today is like the antithesis of this! And tomorrow I am off hiking for the day. I normally have very subdued weekends but this one is full! Bizarre. I will probably be cross on Monday that I haven't had sufficient lazy-time.

Righty, better get back to it. My work at the moment makes me such a grouch. Being critical all the time is a bit misery-making. But then, at the end I will get to be more sweetness and light.

x J