£500 is in a cheque for my flight money and being posted to me today.
Alliance and Leicester are calling me later to tell me what the CHUFF they are doing with my complaint.
I am starting to feel almost normal.
x J
Wednesday, 3 September 2008
Insania...
Ooopsy I have gone mad. I had actually started defining anything outside of normal life in terms of my PhD work. I know this because I last night I put the bin out in time for the binmen (refuse coordinators?) this morning. As I was trundling along with road to the pavement I did feel uneasy and kept reassuring myself that it was Wednesday night, and that tomorrow, being Thursday, the binmen will come round. No other bins where there but again, I reassured myself.
And then just now I thought 'hmmm. I haven't heard any binmen today', and looked outside to see if other bins where there and surprise, they weren't. Because it is WEDNESDAY today. And do you know why I thought it was Thursday today and Wednesday yesterday?! Because I have done some much work and can't believe I have managed so much in two days, so think it must be three.
Ergo, PhD work becomes more important as a marker of time than weekdays.
I need DB to come home!
I think he is coming back on Friday. Phew!
Today I need to write about aid simulacra. Yaya! I really hope I get ltos done again today! I want to finish for Friday, I want to finish for Friday, I want to... and on and on.
I am going to ring Alliance and Leicester and close my account. They have so far managaged to change my account to someone elses on the basis of a fraudulent passport, blocked me out of my internet-only account for three months, and send me letters saying I have gone overdrawn when I haven't. And they haven't yet looked into why. So, with going to TN and all I can't really havr this hanging over my neck and am tired, so tired of them. Pain is that I have to give them £140 to close it from my overdraft which I would rather keep for now and also am letting them off the hook. If I wasn't stressed enough anyway I would go to the financial ombudsman and get them to tell A and L off on my behalf. Oh well. I hate them so telling them to go away would be a pleasure.
After that I am editing what I wrote yesterday (please be good, please be good) and starting the new section...
x J
And then just now I thought 'hmmm. I haven't heard any binmen today', and looked outside to see if other bins where there and surprise, they weren't. Because it is WEDNESDAY today. And do you know why I thought it was Thursday today and Wednesday yesterday?! Because I have done some much work and can't believe I have managed so much in two days, so think it must be three.
Ergo, PhD work becomes more important as a marker of time than weekdays.
I need DB to come home!
I think he is coming back on Friday. Phew!
Today I need to write about aid simulacra. Yaya! I really hope I get ltos done again today! I want to finish for Friday, I want to finish for Friday, I want to... and on and on.
I am going to ring Alliance and Leicester and close my account. They have so far managaged to change my account to someone elses on the basis of a fraudulent passport, blocked me out of my internet-only account for three months, and send me letters saying I have gone overdrawn when I haven't. And they haven't yet looked into why. So, with going to TN and all I can't really havr this hanging over my neck and am tired, so tired of them. Pain is that I have to give them £140 to close it from my overdraft which I would rather keep for now and also am letting them off the hook. If I wasn't stressed enough anyway I would go to the financial ombudsman and get them to tell A and L off on my behalf. Oh well. I hate them so telling them to go away would be a pleasure.
After that I am editing what I wrote yesterday (please be good, please be good) and starting the new section...
x J
Tuesday, 2 September 2008
Another productive day!
I worked hard again today! All is well in the land of chapter five. I keep thinking it's chapter four still though. That is confusing.
I love it when I write my chapter and say things like 'as outlined in Chapter Two' - even though chapter two hasn't even happened yet! Magic. makes me feel like the thing may end up being a coherent whole... hehe, or not.
So I amfinally, finally, on the home strait. I have one last section to write which is the round up and kind of conclusion to all the analysis and other conclusions so far... So I hope that it won't be tooo long. Be succinct. Get it done!
DB isn't sure when he is coming home... I thought it was Thursday but he won't really tell me! It sounds very strange but cornwall is VERY far away and he is with all his friends. And he is hopeless at planning anything. Anyway, it is annoying because this on-my-own malarky is boring. Although, I suppose I could get used to it!
Wow, anyone in hollyoaks in a relationship is incredibly dramatic. Just hugging someone is grounds for calling off a wedding apparently.
Well, it's time to make some dins! Dins! I am trying out this strange sosmix - a veggie mix for sausages... I hope it's nice. I am not veggie but it's worth an adventure.
Tomorrow I am really looking forward to getting stuck into this last part of the chapter... It will really show me how far I have in front of me before I finish... Hopefully it will be three days!
x J
I love it when I write my chapter and say things like 'as outlined in Chapter Two' - even though chapter two hasn't even happened yet! Magic. makes me feel like the thing may end up being a coherent whole... hehe, or not.
So I amfinally, finally, on the home strait. I have one last section to write which is the round up and kind of conclusion to all the analysis and other conclusions so far... So I hope that it won't be tooo long. Be succinct. Get it done!
DB isn't sure when he is coming home... I thought it was Thursday but he won't really tell me! It sounds very strange but cornwall is VERY far away and he is with all his friends. And he is hopeless at planning anything. Anyway, it is annoying because this on-my-own malarky is boring. Although, I suppose I could get used to it!
Wow, anyone in hollyoaks in a relationship is incredibly dramatic. Just hugging someone is grounds for calling off a wedding apparently.
Well, it's time to make some dins! Dins! I am trying out this strange sosmix - a veggie mix for sausages... I hope it's nice. I am not veggie but it's worth an adventure.
Tomorrow I am really looking forward to getting stuck into this last part of the chapter... It will really show me how far I have in front of me before I finish... Hopefully it will be three days!
x J
Summer?!
Today there is blue sky! Blue sky! Although there was yesterday too and I put some washing on thinking I will be able to dry it outside, and it rained dinnit.
What if it stayed sunny? What if I could sit in my garden with my book and be hot? What if I could wear my skirt?! WOW! Nah... You definitely have to go abroad to do that. I am sure I remember doing it in England but think this may be me being ultra-positive and hazy about the past... When politicians were honest?!
Well today... I am really sleepy today dear reader. Very snoozy indeedy and not sure why. I wonder if it is because I haven't run around enough this week - because of this darned injury. The irony is that I signed up to the half-marathon to keep me fit and actually, because I have to look after myself in the run up to it, I am lounging around waiting to get well enough! So getting unfit! Silly silly paradox.
No sign of my flight money yet. Arg. come ON! I wonder who to email?! I shall wait for today and email someone tomorrow if I am not contacted. Problem with me always is that I am incredibly impatient and when I have a bee in my bonnet I get on the case immediatemente, no hanging around. Speaking of which I am in the process of badgering my dearest friends to go on holiday with me next year to Greece on an island. They all earn really decent money but still whine on about money. And none are married/childered or anything - where does the money go?! They all earn twice as much as me but seem to have *no* money. I think this is a fantastic example of how the more money you have, the less you have! I know, because I am always skint, that if I want to go on holiday in a year then I will save and budget for it and see it as a treat. Why can't they?! They have, literally, a year. So I am cajoling. I wonder where people's sense of adventure is sometimes too. It would be so lovely, a week of bikini-ing and seafood and wine and reading and chats with best friends. I have said no one difficult is allowed to come! Hehe. We are all getting older now and I want to get a family going and have to finish this course and sort of, I suppose, see my adulthood looming and fancy a carefree holiday with my besties before we all grow up and have even less time for each other.
They can afford it. Silly rabbits.
Speaking of which, a really sad story is being uncovered in the news about a millionnaire who apparently had money troubles, who it seems killed his wife and teenage daughter, their pets and horses and then set his mansion on fire and killed himself. Mostly speculation at the moment is that he owed money to big businesses - at first peeps thought he may have been assassinated but this was realised to be a bit excitable for Britain and he just owed money to normal big businesses who recognise and use the judicial system... So it looks like he would rather have his family and self dead, than be poor. Words fail me.
I feel more awake now. Am going to work on this chapter more today, concentratedly, and go to the gym at lunchtime. So... will work until half 12, then come back probably at half two, and work until 6.30odd. Let's GO!
x J
What if it stayed sunny? What if I could sit in my garden with my book and be hot? What if I could wear my skirt?! WOW! Nah... You definitely have to go abroad to do that. I am sure I remember doing it in England but think this may be me being ultra-positive and hazy about the past... When politicians were honest?!
Well today... I am really sleepy today dear reader. Very snoozy indeedy and not sure why. I wonder if it is because I haven't run around enough this week - because of this darned injury. The irony is that I signed up to the half-marathon to keep me fit and actually, because I have to look after myself in the run up to it, I am lounging around waiting to get well enough! So getting unfit! Silly silly paradox.
No sign of my flight money yet. Arg. come ON! I wonder who to email?! I shall wait for today and email someone tomorrow if I am not contacted. Problem with me always is that I am incredibly impatient and when I have a bee in my bonnet I get on the case immediatemente, no hanging around. Speaking of which I am in the process of badgering my dearest friends to go on holiday with me next year to Greece on an island. They all earn really decent money but still whine on about money. And none are married/childered or anything - where does the money go?! They all earn twice as much as me but seem to have *no* money. I think this is a fantastic example of how the more money you have, the less you have! I know, because I am always skint, that if I want to go on holiday in a year then I will save and budget for it and see it as a treat. Why can't they?! They have, literally, a year. So I am cajoling. I wonder where people's sense of adventure is sometimes too. It would be so lovely, a week of bikini-ing and seafood and wine and reading and chats with best friends. I have said no one difficult is allowed to come! Hehe. We are all getting older now and I want to get a family going and have to finish this course and sort of, I suppose, see my adulthood looming and fancy a carefree holiday with my besties before we all grow up and have even less time for each other.
They can afford it. Silly rabbits.
Speaking of which, a really sad story is being uncovered in the news about a millionnaire who apparently had money troubles, who it seems killed his wife and teenage daughter, their pets and horses and then set his mansion on fire and killed himself. Mostly speculation at the moment is that he owed money to big businesses - at first peeps thought he may have been assassinated but this was realised to be a bit excitable for Britain and he just owed money to normal big businesses who recognise and use the judicial system... So it looks like he would rather have his family and self dead, than be poor. Words fail me.
I feel more awake now. Am going to work on this chapter more today, concentratedly, and go to the gym at lunchtime. So... will work until half 12, then come back probably at half two, and work until 6.30odd. Let's GO!
x J
Monday, 1 September 2008
Bueno
I have worked pretty well today! I never normally concentrate that well on Mondays but today was a good day of work. I am nearly, nearly there... I said that I would stop at half six but half six came around and I was keen to carry on... but also hungry and my concentration was fading so I thought best to save the enthusiasim for tomorrow.
Ahh tomorrow. I am working super hard tomorrow and going to the gym for some careful exercise that hopefully won't injure me any more! I have been invited to my friend's on Friday for a glass of wine and so she can teach me to make bread - I am sooooo keen to make my own but rubbish at it and apparently she is a Master! So that gives me something to aim for. Well, DB is coming abck on Thurs apparently so that will be my aim. I reckon if I work hard tomorrow and get this part done, and then get the outline and gist of the next bit, I should be pretty done by this weekend. Which would be GREAT. I am sick of this and really need to move on!
Speaking of which, no flight money still. This makes me sad. :(. Hopefully tomorrow...
I am making sausage casserole/soup type thing for tea! is mainly an excuse to eat a lot of veggies with the treat of the odd bit of sausage thrown in... (cheap thrills)
Well. This evening I am bidding on a pair of sandals on ebay and chilling out my brain... Onwards for tomorrow!
x J
Ahh tomorrow. I am working super hard tomorrow and going to the gym for some careful exercise that hopefully won't injure me any more! I have been invited to my friend's on Friday for a glass of wine and so she can teach me to make bread - I am sooooo keen to make my own but rubbish at it and apparently she is a Master! So that gives me something to aim for. Well, DB is coming abck on Thurs apparently so that will be my aim. I reckon if I work hard tomorrow and get this part done, and then get the outline and gist of the next bit, I should be pretty done by this weekend. Which would be GREAT. I am sick of this and really need to move on!
Speaking of which, no flight money still. This makes me sad. :(. Hopefully tomorrow...
I am making sausage casserole/soup type thing for tea! is mainly an excuse to eat a lot of veggies with the treat of the odd bit of sausage thrown in... (cheap thrills)
Well. This evening I am bidding on a pair of sandals on ebay and chilling out my brain... Onwards for tomorrow!
x J
Boo
I can't buy my tickets! Uni haven't given me my money. I am sad... But also, in a weird way, a little bit relieved... I don't know why! I guess when they are booked, they are booked. I am off! And I am not quite ready.
However, I am working pretty well on my chapter which is GREAT. Can't believe it is 1.30 though. I have been faffing a lot - I bought some train tix to London to go to my mates' grand pub opening (wow. We are definitely getting old!) and have been chasing my moneeeeeee. And paying bills.
Am skiving again.
Must work!
x J
However, I am working pretty well on my chapter which is GREAT. Can't believe it is 1.30 though. I have been faffing a lot - I bought some train tix to London to go to my mates' grand pub opening (wow. We are definitely getting old!) and have been chasing my moneeeeeee. And paying bills.
Am skiving again.
Must work!
x J
Eeek
Arg it's Monday?! I am very confused! I slept really hard after a restless weekend and this morning woke up very sleepy and befuddled. Is it definitely Monday? I have the radio on to try and 'earth' myself... !
Today is a big day! I have to buy my flight tickets today! Woo! This means I need to get on the Phone and I don't like the phone. This is silly, I shall get it over with asap.
I need to pop to the PO later
Need to pay bills.
I shall to the bills onine now, then get the tix at some point and then go to the PO around 2pm. Go for a nice walk. I have damaged my insides somehow running and couldn't go for any running over the weekend... Am resting. Is rubbish! I did walk about 7 odd miles with my friend who came over on Saturday though, so have been out and about and keeping a level of fitness up. I find it interesting that I can jog 6 miles and be fine, but go for a 7 mile walk and be sore the next day...!
I have to get back into me chapter too. I did a very good job of ignoring it over the weekend and am finding it hard to bring back to the front of my mind again! Must work hard on it today. I hate the 'getting back into it' stage! That icky feeling of dread. But hopefully I will look at it and it will be ACE and I will be very pleased...
Or will I...
x J
Today is a big day! I have to buy my flight tickets today! Woo! This means I need to get on the Phone and I don't like the phone. This is silly, I shall get it over with asap.
I need to pop to the PO later
Need to pay bills.
I shall to the bills onine now, then get the tix at some point and then go to the PO around 2pm. Go for a nice walk. I have damaged my insides somehow running and couldn't go for any running over the weekend... Am resting. Is rubbish! I did walk about 7 odd miles with my friend who came over on Saturday though, so have been out and about and keeping a level of fitness up. I find it interesting that I can jog 6 miles and be fine, but go for a 7 mile walk and be sore the next day...!
I have to get back into me chapter too. I did a very good job of ignoring it over the weekend and am finding it hard to bring back to the front of my mind again! Must work hard on it today. I hate the 'getting back into it' stage! That icky feeling of dread. But hopefully I will look at it and it will be ACE and I will be very pleased...
Or will I...
x J
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