Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Uh? Where did that go?

..the past year, that is. Sean is one year old tomorrow. Time really has flown. I read in a report in, I think, the Guardian, that the reason that time seems to speed up as we grow older is a) because each day is an increasingly lesser portion of the time we have spent alive and b) we simply don't have as much sensory input as we age, mainly because we are used to and increasingly inured to our environments, but also because of the myterious hormonal creakings of the chemical lab we call our brains. One report even suggests that, by the time we hit 40, we have actually experienced 71% of our lives in terms of new input. This would suggest that, at 39 and two thirds, I am already not just past it but might as well jump in a grave now and have done with the whole thing.
Well, as Oscar Wilde might have said on a bad day, bugger that. I'm not ready to slip into a pair of slippers and dribble into a bowl of porridge just yet. Anyway, I fully intend to enjoy tomorrow.

Saturday, October 20, 2007

Rugby.

Arse. We lost. Since the world and his wife's opinion will be published by tomorrow anyway, I may as well as have my say. Good match, but England lost it on the discipline issue - something they forgot about from the France match last week. And the disallowed try was a joke.

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

efficiency drive.

I'm not posting here as much as I would really prefer to, nor am I getting on with all the other things I need to do, such as doing the Dip. (ground to a halt, again) and putting together my presentation for the English UK conference: I find having work and family is enough work. two jobs, in fact. What I really need is to be able to organise what I do more efficiently. However, my preferred mode of work involves a sprawling tower of papers, quite often in several locations. I keep intending to put it all in one place, but what is the best?
For this reason, from next week, I'm going to do an experiment. Paper vs. computer; filofax vs. desk diary;blog vs. outlook; post-its vs. everything else.
or something like that.