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hawkwing_lbThird week of term. Sickness defeated. IM client intermittently functional. 0.75% of assessed work for the year delivered. Unexercised since last Monday.
Still running to stay in place, so I guess that's status = normal.
Since last week I managed about half of what work I'd scheduled to do, due to being exhausted by a plague, this week I have a whole lot of seminar reading, an essay, and most of a presentation to get done. (It might be two essays, no presentation. We'll see.)
On the flipside, I spent most of the weekend sacked out watching Andromeda. (It turns out that the library - the book library - loans DVDs now, too. This is a shocking and dangerous state of affairs, particularly when it loans ones that I might actually like.) An SF tv series with reasonably decent acting, snark, decent dialogue, and random explosions. Farscape or BSG it ain't, but it probably has a leg up on early Stargate.
(The SFX are fairly ridiculous, but hey, snark will make up for that any day.)
Unpleasant news: stupid government wants to reintroduce college fees starting next year. Not being part of a household that meets the income cut-off (one hundred and twenty thousand euro per annum) this isn't likely to affect me, much - but, damnit, it's the principle of the thing. Government saves, maybe, two or three million euro per year. But since graduates pay something on the order of half again as much tax as non-graduates, and about the only thing that can attract investment to this country is our stack of B.A.s and B.Sc.s... I suspect it is a matter of cutting off one's nose to spite one's face.
(I mean, even if you earn one hundred and twenty thousand euro p.a., it's not going to be easy to find nine thousand euro p.a. per dependent in university. Not that I'm going to weep for those kind of people, or anything - a 60K p.a. paycheck is about as rich as my wildest dreams.)
Still running to stay in place, so I guess that's status = normal.
Since last week I managed about half of what work I'd scheduled to do, due to being exhausted by a plague, this week I have a whole lot of seminar reading, an essay, and most of a presentation to get done. (It might be two essays, no presentation. We'll see.)
On the flipside, I spent most of the weekend sacked out watching Andromeda. (It turns out that the library - the book library - loans DVDs now, too. This is a shocking and dangerous state of affairs, particularly when it loans ones that I might actually like.) An SF tv series with reasonably decent acting, snark, decent dialogue, and random explosions. Farscape or BSG it ain't, but it probably has a leg up on early Stargate.
(The SFX are fairly ridiculous, but hey, snark will make up for that any day.)
Unpleasant news: stupid government wants to reintroduce college fees starting next year. Not being part of a household that meets the income cut-off (one hundred and twenty thousand euro per annum) this isn't likely to affect me, much - but, damnit, it's the principle of the thing. Government saves, maybe, two or three million euro per year. But since graduates pay something on the order of half again as much tax as non-graduates, and about the only thing that can attract investment to this country is our stack of B.A.s and B.Sc.s... I suspect it is a matter of cutting off one's nose to spite one's face.
(I mean, even if you earn one hundred and twenty thousand euro p.a., it's not going to be easy to find nine thousand euro p.a. per dependent in university. Not that I'm going to weep for those kind of people, or anything - a 60K p.a. paycheck is about as rich as my wildest dreams.)
