Oct. 5th, 2008

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I am one of those people who wants food the instant they wake up in the morning. This makes a fair bit of sense, with my weird loss of appetite in the evenings it has generally been 15 or sometimes even 18 hours since I last had food. However, once a fortnight, when it is my turn to clean the loo, I actually make time to accomplish a "useful task" *before* breakfast. Why before breakfast? Because I want my morning shower after it has been scrubbed--it is ever so much nicer to take the first shower after it has been cleaned than the last shower before it gets cleaned! So on days like today I get up, don't bother getting dressed (if I do I know I'll splash cleaning stuff on the clothes, and the heat-lamp in the loo is actually quite effective), and scrub the bathroom first thing. Then I scrub me, to be certain that even if I did manage to splash cleaning stuff on me it is all gone, and *then* I can come sit down at the computer & enjoy my breakfast. I know that I *could*, in theory, skip my morning shower, get up, get dressed (it is cold in this house, so I have to get dressed!), have breakfast, and then go clean the loo and take a shower thereafter. However, while I have occasionally told myself that I would do in that order, once I'm dressed I can't be bothered taking it off again, so on those days the loo doesn't get clean and I am reduced to going back to plan A the following day, and doing my housework before breakfast.
kareina: (Default)
I am one of those people who wants food the instant they wake up in the morning. This makes a fair bit of sense, with my weird loss of appetite in the evenings it has generally been 15 or sometimes even 18 hours since I last had food. However, once a fortnight, when it is my turn to clean the loo, I actually make time to accomplish a "useful task" *before* breakfast. Why before breakfast? Because I want my morning shower after it has been scrubbed--it is ever so much nicer to take the first shower after it has been cleaned than the last shower before it gets cleaned! So on days like today I get up, don't bother getting dressed (if I do I know I'll splash cleaning stuff on the clothes, and the heat-lamp in the loo is actually quite effective), and scrub the bathroom first thing. Then I scrub me, to be certain that even if I did manage to splash cleaning stuff on me it is all gone, and *then* I can come sit down at the computer & enjoy my breakfast. I know that I *could*, in theory, skip my morning shower, get up, get dressed (it is cold in this house, so I have to get dressed!), have breakfast, and then go clean the loo and take a shower thereafter. However, while I have occasionally told myself that I would do in that order, once I'm dressed I can't be bothered taking it off again, so on those days the loo doesn't get clean and I am reduced to going back to plan A the following day, and doing my housework before breakfast.
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Yes, it is daylight savings time starting today (here in Tasmania), which means that while my clock claims that it is pretty much 23:00, my body thinks it is only about 22:00. However, my mind seems to be convinced that it should be *much* earlier than that. Today has just slipped by amazingly quickly, and I can't *really* account for it. Yes, I slept in a bit, and yes, I lost the morning to some house work, but what about the afternoon? It isn't like I had much to read in the way of e-mail, livejournal, or blogs, it being a weekend and many of my friends off at Crown or other events. There was that truly yummy loaf of bread I baked, but that didn't take all *that* long. Weird time warps happen, I suppose.

I did manage to do a bit of work. Yesterday it took me six hours to accomplish re-doing two samples. Today I did that many in just over two. However, one of them was a repeat sample, different geothermobarometer, so I was spared some typing by referring to the above section, so today's total is only 368 new words and 5 new figures/tables. Not enough! Hopefully tomorrow will be another six or more hours of uni work sort of day. If I can do those sorts of hours, with today's number of samples done per hour, that would be a goodness!
kareina: (BSE garnet)
Yes, it is daylight savings time starting today (here in Tasmania), which means that while my clock claims that it is pretty much 23:00, my body thinks it is only about 22:00. However, my mind seems to be convinced that it should be *much* earlier than that. Today has just slipped by amazingly quickly, and I can't *really* account for it. Yes, I slept in a bit, and yes, I lost the morning to some house work, but what about the afternoon? It isn't like I had much to read in the way of e-mail, livejournal, or blogs, it being a weekend and many of my friends off at Crown or other events. There was that truly yummy loaf of bread I baked, but that didn't take all *that* long. Weird time warps happen, I suppose.

I did manage to do a bit of work. Yesterday it took me six hours to accomplish re-doing two samples. Today I did that many in just over two. However, one of them was a repeat sample, different geothermobarometer, so I was spared some typing by referring to the above section, so today's total is only 368 new words and 5 new figures/tables. Not enough! Hopefully tomorrow will be another six or more hours of uni work sort of day. If I can do those sorts of hours, with today's number of samples done per hour, that would be a goodness!

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