While I'm awake...
Nov. 1st, 2004 11:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deborah_c... I should catch up again, shouldn't I? Currently very, very tired after misunderestimating the amount of work I still needed to do on current project. It's now a lot healthier, at least. Had I had a little more focus last night, it might have been even more so, but relationship angst kind of got in the way and left me in a small puddle on the floor for most of the night...
A good time at the Calling, as ever, on Tuesday. Talked to lots of people, danced quite a bit (for me, at least) despite![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mrph attempting to kill us all, generally had fun. simont looked rather tired and a bit down, though; I hope things are better now, Simon! I didn't make it through to the end, though; for some reason the smoke got to me rather more than usual, possibly because I was distracted by dancing and music and shiny people and so on, so I left a little earlier than usual while I could still breathe at least a little.
Most of the rest of the week spent trying desperately to catch up on the work that I'd have done the previous week had it not been for flu. I did make it out to the pub to catch up with friends for an hour or so on Wednesday evening, although once again the smoke got to me -- probably still sensitive after the previous evening, I suppose.
Took Saturday evening out to go to a great Halloween party atnecro_angel's house. Kai, Andy et al had done a wonderful job of decorating, and picking Halloween-themed and on occasion ridiculously cheesy music to go with it! Lots of nice people: lovely to see autumn_storm again (in exuberant mood), to spend time with friends and to meet some really lovely people that I hadn't before.
Sunday: church, then a university Brass Ensemble concert at the Fitzwilliam (wonderful Gabrieli antiphonal music in a beautiful setting). A, A and R went and drew things in the Greek and Roman section afterwards (they've been out drawing things a lot this week over half-term, and seem to enjoy it a lot). Then home and yet more work... sigh... until a long phone conversation with an old friend unfortunately left me overly reflective about life.
Today: work, GP appointment (arrived early just after 10am for a 10.30 appointment, seen promptly at quarter past 11, sigh), company lunch at the Wrestlers, more work, then collapsed. I did at least manage to fit in a quick sight-read through the accompaniment for Trial by Jury; a couple of numbers are going to need a little work before I can quite play them at speed, I think -- my left hand isn't terribly agile at the moment. At least I can still sight-read, which is something I was worried about, although I'm not looking nearly as far ahead as I should be -- too much time spent thinking about how to play the notes, rather than worrying about what's coming up. And I've got till February to make it polished, I suppose. At least it gets me back doing some kind of music, which is very welcome. (Hmm... must talk toaiwendel at some point about maybe doing some kind of playing, if she's still interested...) Very early night, although I seem to be rather more awake now than I've been feeling for much of the day. Still, I don't imagine it will last long... zzz...
Feeling rather guilty about having neglected friends, failed to do things I'd promised to do (or at least not yet got round to them) etc. Sorry all -- *whimper*. Hopefully after this week's past I should be simultaneously less harrassed about work, marginally sane, and not ill (I hope), and can catch up a little. Also feeling guilty about the backlog of letters to write to more (geographically) distant friends, which I've also been neglecting (only more so :-( ).
A good time at the Calling, as ever, on Tuesday. Talked to lots of people, danced quite a bit (for me, at least) despite
mrph attempting to kill us all, generally had fun. simont looked rather tired and a bit down, though; I hope things are better now, Simon! I didn't make it through to the end, though; for some reason the smoke got to me rather more than usual, possibly because I was distracted by dancing and music and shiny people and so on, so I left a little earlier than usual while I could still breathe at least a little.Most of the rest of the week spent trying desperately to catch up on the work that I'd have done the previous week had it not been for flu. I did make it out to the pub to catch up with friends for an hour or so on Wednesday evening, although once again the smoke got to me -- probably still sensitive after the previous evening, I suppose.
Took Saturday evening out to go to a great Halloween party at
necro_angel's house. Kai, Andy et al had done a wonderful job of decorating, and picking Halloween-themed and on occasion ridiculously cheesy music to go with it! Lots of nice people: lovely to see autumn_storm again (in exuberant mood), to spend time with friends and to meet some really lovely people that I hadn't before.Sunday: church, then a university Brass Ensemble concert at the Fitzwilliam (wonderful Gabrieli antiphonal music in a beautiful setting). A, A and R went and drew things in the Greek and Roman section afterwards (they've been out drawing things a lot this week over half-term, and seem to enjoy it a lot). Then home and yet more work... sigh... until a long phone conversation with an old friend unfortunately left me overly reflective about life.
Today: work, GP appointment (arrived early just after 10am for a 10.30 appointment, seen promptly at quarter past 11, sigh), company lunch at the Wrestlers, more work, then collapsed. I did at least manage to fit in a quick sight-read through the accompaniment for Trial by Jury; a couple of numbers are going to need a little work before I can quite play them at speed, I think -- my left hand isn't terribly agile at the moment. At least I can still sight-read, which is something I was worried about, although I'm not looking nearly as far ahead as I should be -- too much time spent thinking about how to play the notes, rather than worrying about what's coming up. And I've got till February to make it polished, I suppose. At least it gets me back doing some kind of music, which is very welcome. (Hmm... must talk to
aiwendel at some point about maybe doing some kind of playing, if she's still interested...) Very early night, although I seem to be rather more awake now than I've been feeling for much of the day. Still, I don't imagine it will last long... zzz...Feeling rather guilty about having neglected friends, failed to do things I'd promised to do (or at least not yet got round to them) etc. Sorry all -- *whimper*. Hopefully after this week's past I should be simultaneously less harrassed about work, marginally sane, and not ill (I hope), and can catch up a little. Also feeling guilty about the backlog of letters to write to more (geographically) distant friends, which I've also been neglecting (only more so :-( ).
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Date: 2004-11-02 08:40 am (UTC)On the other hand i do still think getting a group together would be a plan -
I can't read music you see....
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