I’ve been on a sort of roll these last few days with no shortage of things to write about. I guess it had to end sometime. I don’t have any ideas in my head this morning for a topic. It might have something to do with the fact that there’s far too much I could write about.
WA Blog Awards:
Take a look at the actual award winners. And if you’re interested, here is one report on the evening’s events. (Anyone reading this who went along, feel free to give me your take on the evening. I am curious and kind of regretting just lying around all evening eating Toblerone and watching Battlestar Galactica instead.)
(I’m completely shocked – just discovered that Not TheWest has listed me as one of his 5 for Blog Day. Whoah. I mean thanks! 🙂 )
Work:
It’s been so busy that I think I should give up all pretense of managing to keep up with everything. I am still struggling to find time to write. Seems like whenever I set aside a couple of hours just for writing, some minor catastrophe happens that needs sorting out.
A student who shouldn’t have been able to borrow anything because of their category on the system, turning up with long overdue books, and challenging their $200 fine.
Trying, over a period of two weeks, to get in touch with a Professor to discuss that $20,000 subscription. He doesn’t return your phone calls or emails and The Boss is breathing down your neck wanting more information from said Prof. Pondering whether to stake out Prof’s office and then catching sight of him off for a jog around campus, in shorts and t-shirt. Waving to get his attention, and him waving back, royally. This – spotting Prof jogging around campus – happens not once, but twice, and both times you get the wave. Prof doesn’t bother to contact you, of course. Everyone thinks it’s very funny when you report this (even you). Eventually you get the info from Prof’s long-suffering research assistant, and wonder why you didn’t think of that in the first place.
Reminding yourself that it’s best not to take things too seriously… or too personally.
Experiments:
Just realised that I’ve made it through three months of blogging. And three months of waking up and getting out of bed at 5 o’clock in the morning. I’m quite surprised how much I’ve been enjoying both the blogging and the early rising.
In terms of this blog, occasionally I wonder if I should have more of a focus and aim to write about specific things. I could write about My Life as a Librarian. Or review books. Or write about life in this city. But then I look at the tags I’ve created for the posts on this blog, and realise I already do all that.
Finally, on a completely unrelated note, I’ve just realised that the Vegemite I’ve been eating on my toast for the last couple of days has a Best Before date of 13 March 03…!!
Categories: navel-gazing, WABlogAwards, blogging
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The incident with the Prof. and not taking things – totally relate to that. And yes, if there’s an assistant, she’s probably the best first point of contact. I’m speaking as the point-of-contact person, of course!
… ‘not taking things too seriously’ is what i meant to type. oops.
Ain’t Vegemite already fermented? How much worse can it get? 😛 Ok I’m not a Vegemite fan as you can tell from my tone. Heh.
We just finished a bottle of sesame oil that expired in October 2002!
And the Vegemite’s still ok? That means mine should be. I’ve been too afraid to touch it (and yet not thrown it out) since it reached its expiry date a few months ago.
Cherry: *nods* I usually know this, it’s just that this info needed to come from Prof himself. Never mind. This one’s done for another year.
Mooiness: I have to be in the mood for Vegemite. Usually when I am in that mood, nothing else will do on my toast. I had strawberry jam on my toast this morning, though. Mmmmmmmm… strawberry jam…
tfp: it wasn’t rancid? (Well I guess it wasn’t or you wouldn’t have used it!)
Miss L: the flavour of the Vegemite was maybe a little strong but it still tasted fine 🙂