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Sunday, January 8th, 2012
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8:44 pm - In which I have almost been social
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After a very quiet end to the old year - I didn't do much between Christmas and Hogmanay except sleep and read Agatha Christie - I've had a pretty hectic start to the new one.
I saw the year in with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=88.8) tigger_boing and vililee and a couple of others - still pretty quiet, with dinner, word games and wandering out to watch the fireworks from a distance. On New Year's Day I went down to Newcastle, where I had some nice walks - Whitley Bay to Blyth one day, and wandering round the town walls the next - and nearly ended up stranded by the winds coming back on the 3rd.
I was back at work for a day, off for my birthday, when I walked from Dirleton to Aberlady, and back for another day, then the weekend adventures started - back down to Newcastle for a dance on Friday night, a gathering afterwards, walking on the beach at Bamburgh, a dance in Edinburgh last night, and lunch with my family today.
I'm worn out, and heading back to a mountain of exam scripts to sort out tomorrow... :)
current mood:  exhausted
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| Saturday, December 31st, 2011
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3:40 pm
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I always find Hogmanay quite a sad day. I'm sorry for the poor worn out year, disappearing into the past, and I'm sorry about things I could have done, or should have done, and didn't.
(As I was writing this, I caused a small rice explosion. Last disaster of the year, I hope!)
current mood:  pensive
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| Thursday, December 29th, 2011
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11:05 pm - places meme
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List the towns or cities where you spent at least a night away from home during 2011. Mark with a star if you had multiple non-consecutive stays.
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3:34 pm - In which I appear to have spent the year doing 5 things at once
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| Wednesday, December 28th, 2011
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2:56 pm - Tha an rathad a' ruith gu tuath
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It's not properly December without Runrig. But they have posted tour dates for 2012 (although not for December yet) - so I may be off to Denmark in June, as late August is far too long to wait...
I have adventures on my mind at the moment - the last couple of years I've gone to London at New Year, but this year I'm only off until the 3rd, which would make it a bit rushed, and also I decided the last time that I should go back to London when it's not the school holidays (and settled on a weekend in June, then went to Newcastle that weekend instead).
So I've been trying to think of somewhere else to go - it has to be England, because no Scottish transport runs on the 1st of January. I could get into Northumbria or the Lake District easily enough, or probably even north Wales (where I've never been), but it's not really the time of year for wandering in the wilds. Newcastle is always a posibility - plenty of prowling round to do that I don't do if I'm just there to dance or visit people - but I'll be back that weekend for a dance, so it seems a bit silly. The only other idea I've come up with is Shrewsbury - Cadfael, of course - which isn't really any quicker to get to than London. I haven't been in the west of England much, though.
current mood:  thoughtful
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| Sunday, December 4th, 2011
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11:21 am
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| Thursday, November 24th, 2011
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2:04 pm
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It was a horrible no good grumpy day yesterday - not exactly very bad, just not very anything, so that I couldn't get to the end of anything I was trying to do, and now I'm all behind with everything. And today I just feel grotty - not bad enough to be ill and rest, and not good enough to be right and do things. Frustration all round :)
Also dancing seems to be trying to take over my life, because I had a fit of enthusiasm and said yes to all sorts of things - which would be fine if the rest of my life was keeping nicely in its place, but it's kind of not.
Oh well. Fairly quiet weekend ahead...
current mood:  resigned
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| Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
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8:05 pm
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Tonight I need to finish applying for a job and write emails about 10 9 things (but only to 5 people) and play the fiddle. Tomorrow night I need to go to M&S and John Lewis and Dunedin. Thursday night is all filled up with fiddling and NS anyway. At some point in this I need to write about the busy weekend, and study, and play the fiddle more.
I had a bowl of stovies for my tea with an oatcake in it like a wafer in icecream. And I got 87/100 in the RSCDS unit 1 exam. But I'm too tired to be very coherent, so that might be all the news for now :)
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| Friday, November 4th, 2011
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8:47 pm
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I have a nice Friday feeling tonight, because although there are plenty of things that I *might* do this weekend, like posting my pictures from the Northumberland coast path, or finishing reading a book about trees, or starting to read a book about rocks, or having a bath right in the middle of the day, or walking from Dirleton to Longniddry, or applying for a job, there's not an awful lot that I *have* to do, beyond going to a dance in Glasgow that I've already bought a ticket for. I can cope with that much obligation :)
current mood:  relaxed
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| Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
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6:14 pm - In which it is November
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So I have survived October, which had two exams in it, and nature study, and an OU assignment, and 6 days of walking for miles, and generally too much busyness, and made it into November, which although fairly busy should be *fun*, especially where dancing is concerned :)
(But I do seem to have reached the horrible stage of making plans for the whole rest of the year - I hardly seem to have got used to it being 2011 at all, and now it nearly isn't.)
Among other excitement I soon get to start my possibly-last OU course, which is about The Frozen Planet, and appears to combine bits of geology and meteorology and botany everything else to make a very suitable end to my Certificate in Contemporary Science. I'm looking forward to it. :)
As a side effect of the last course, and all my seaside wanderings, I am slightly addicted to a site called iSpot - you take pictures of plants and animals and things, and work out what they are, and post them, and then other people agree with you, and you get points for it, and more little birds and plants after your name. I like this as a way of finding out what things are - I take a few things at a time, and it seems to work on the right kind of scale.
There is more to say about wanderings and the rest of the year and all sorts of things, but I must go fiddling now.
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| Sunday, October 2nd, 2011
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12:17 pm - in which I am not at the seaside
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I need to go to the seaside and find four more examples of things living on a rocky shore, so I can post their pictures and release my assignment questions - but I'm not dedicated enough as a naturalist to go out in the pouring rain we had this morning, and I have to go dancing in the afternoon. I suppose I should be concentrating on next week's exam instead...
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| Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
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11:04 pm - In which I am a bit in demand
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Having taken it into my head that I should go to a 'proper' concert at least once in my life, I have bought a slightly expensive ticket for a slightly posh seat for this, to cheer me up, and lead nicely into the crazy October.
( in which it is nearly October already )
Otherwise, there are too many places I want to walk to, and not enough days to go walking in...
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| Monday, September 26th, 2011
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1:58 pm - In which I am cursing students
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I've felt for about a week as if I was going down with freshers' flu, but never quite getting there - not the streaming cold everyone around me has had, but just completely worn out.
So I spent most of the weekend doing approximately nothing at all, and failed to go to Doors Open day, or Yellowcraigs, or climb Berwick Law, or finish reading The Commodore, or study (much) for Unit 1, or book trains for the next adventure, or really anything else useful that I might have done. I did write 3 social programmes and a programme for Dunedin in between all the nothing - but although resting was nice, I really need to get prepared for a slightly crazy October...
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| Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
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1:25 pm - Taking pleasure in small things
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| Saturday, August 27th, 2011
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3:28 pm - to do list
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| Thursday, August 25th, 2011
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12:50 pm
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If my mind is going to sing to itself, I wish it would learn the words. It's slightly disconcerting to suddenly start paying attention and discover that her goat wheeled her barrow through streets broad and narrow, or that they came in a wizard and we offered them heat...
current mood:  silly
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| Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
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9:13 pm
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I am trying to pack for three different things at once, and finding it complicated.
current mood: confused
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| Saturday, July 2nd, 2011
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5:53 pm - In which I have been quiet
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Well, in theory the mad rush is over – exams sorted out, new boss arrived – but I seem to have got so used to being wound up that I've forgotten how to unwind. Either I dot about restlessly, not managing to settle to anything for fear of neglecting all the others, or I just shamelessly do nothing at all - and neither is very useful for getting things done.
Anyway, there was a week when I had enthusiastic plans for all sorts of things, and then I ran off to Newcastle in a very holiday mood, and had a lovely weekend involving dancing, breakfast in the garden, walking by the seaside, good food and wine in very good company, and a stately home with doll's houses and woodpeckers. Then there was a more struggling sort of week with new boss and very little energy, and a tireder Newcastle weekend, this time with tigger_boing and a dance in Alnwick and a very good workshop on the Sunday (and more meals in the garden).
This week has been another long one, and I'm now on my way to Newcastle for the third weekend in a row, for a dance which is simultaneously three birthday parties – but I really should be writing an essay about ancient Egyptian and Greek maths, and I'm definitely not.
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| Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
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1:57 pm
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Why do I either have enthusiasm for nothing at all, or for all sorts of things all at once??
current mood: confused
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| Friday, June 10th, 2011
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11:10 pm - An cuibhle mor nach stad gu brath
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I may finally have been thrown out the other end of the whirl, as the last exam board was this afternoon. I have basically no idea where the last month went (one of the things that I don't like about my current job is losing my favourite time of the year to a haze of tiredness, although it's not usually as bad as this, as we're not usually a person down).
Not that things necessarily go quiet - I'm dancing in Edinburgh this weekend and then going to Newcastle on each of the next three... there's also still Dunedin on Wednesdays until the end of the month, and I have lots of studying to catch up on - but they will hopefully be a bit less exhausting.
current mood: exhausted
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