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Dramas (mostly stuff out of my control)

Monday, 01 May, 2006

H/E 10 is going to be late. I'm starting to think it's going to be later than I thought. I had Word by Word on Saturday (I ran a training topic on how to write articles for H/E and Matt did one on scriptwriting which was pretty interesting as I've never written a script before). I had planned to write Saturday night (ambitious, huh!) but realised I was so brain-dead that I was better off working on the conference booklet for C.S. Lewis Today conference. It was a long job—took me four hours and I finished at 1 am. And then we had to do the grocery shopping as well as get food because I was cooking at church that evening, I realised we were running out of clothes due to the fact I haven't done the laundry in a week and a half, and things just took a lot longer than I thought. So no writing but on the other hand at least the conference book is done and the final article I was waiting for has come in.

I had planned to just wash up quickly after church and then go home and rest but somehow got suckered into helping FEVA stuff envelopes for their next mailout. And then Ben did the very gallant thing in offering to drive home two of the staff who normally rely on public transport. He did drop me off first and I should have gone to bed but instead I ended up watching some Bollywood thing on SBS and so I am tired today. *Sigh* ...

Went to leave for work and found the gate locked so I was pretty much locked into my own driveway. Thought, “This is very strange.” Went to look for the maintenance man but he wasn't there yet. Rang MAC but of course they don't open 'til 9. Ben overheard me speaking on the phone and sleepily informed me that I could unlock the gate with my key and that our neighbours had been talking about locking it last night. Was 10 minutes late for work (not that it hugely matters). Discovered where all the rest of the work coffee mugs have been hiding (and firmly resolved never to become a coffee drinker—ewww!!!)

Kettle is broken at work so cannot have tea. That fridge magnet we have needs to be changed to “No tea, no workee”; the coffee drinkers have no reason to strike! Still it's good that now we will have to get a new kettle because the old one was crusty and little bits of white plastic used to float in the water when you boiled it (of course, if you took milk with your tea, you would never notice that, would you).

DBK III was almost pulled from the schedule last week but Tony's decided it's staying in but he's adding material to it which means it has to be totally re-laid out. And I can't do the indexes until it's been re-laid out and so it's going to ship late because indexes cannot be done in one day.

I'm 2.5 hours away from finishing transcription. 2.5 hours!!! Where am I going to find 2.5 hours??

The conference starts this Thursday. I am looking forward to it but also dreading it because of all the stuff I'll have to do. Plus it goes from Thursday to Saturday so Sunday will have be my one day off. I plan to sleep in, maybe go for a walk and knit.

Why is everyone so worried about our marriage? (Should I be worried that everyone else is worried? Because I'm not.) Is it because of this post that you all think I'm such a terrible wife?

I can't help feeling sad that I've worked so hard and no one is happy with the results. But two of my jobs will finish very very soon, maybe MM will put me on four days a week (and, if not, maybe I can keep working for Greg), H/E will all be finished, life will get far less stressful and we'll all live happily ever after.

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