Friday: Back up

This is a very boring picture of my key drive.  And backing up is pretty boring.

Still, I'm saving to it, obsessively, every time I do any work on my thesis.  There's another external hard drive back up too, because the horror of possibly losing my thesis is too enormous to consider.  So I'm not thinking about it, but going off to Poland blithely leaving my computer and all its contents behind.

So boring and smug--that's me today!

(Written before leaving for Poland, but strangely not posted...)

Thursday

Yesterday:
Started work, 9am.
Lunch break: 2 hours
Hours worked on thesis: 0
Hours worked on admin / email / teaching / conferences / articles: 7 (of which, hours trying to learn to say hello in Polish: 1).
Cups of coffee: 4

Regrets: Missed most of the lovely sunny day doing email.
Other achievements: Haircut! Birthday dinner for Andreas.

Overall: not bad.

Weds 27 Feb

Just back from Oxford--arrived just after midnight, woken in the night by the earth tremour (feeling slightly seasick!) and then up early as it's my partner's birthday today. The cleaner can't come this week, her back is out again. We've got six people staying the night and a big party on Friday, and then I'm off to Poland for this conference, leaving on Saturday night, so i need to get into town to change some currency, unearth my suitcase, burn a CD with the musical examples I'm going to play and make a handout... and clean the bath.

Having spent two days in Oxford, I'm starting to wonder if I will get any research / writing done this week. I'm sure this is a familiar feeling for other people. I'll let you know how I get on.