you're making lists today of all the things you haven't done yet

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Out of the things I aimed to get done this weekend, I managed to do most of them -- I tidied my room (and the living room), I got several batches of clothes washed, I did some piano practice, and ... I think that's about it.

Yesterday I did my first shift as a volunteer at Oxfam Books on Sidney Street. I think I did more useful work in one afternoon there than I have done in three years at ProQuest. The other people who work there are lovely, and I spent a happy afternoon shifting piles of books around and sorting them into boxes. It's not quite the roomful of books which do not symbolise anything that I was looking for, but it's close enough to make me happy.

I've been working hard on stuff for ProQuest today. It's soul-destroyingly boring, unsurprisingly. I had a lot of motivation this morning because I'd planned to meet hoiho for lunch and I wanted to get lots of work done beforehand; but he was feeling too ill to do lunch in the end. The motivation lasted for a little while after that anyway, but now it's gone.

Sometimes I feel like I spend my entire life waiting for things that probably won't happen.

When I finish this post I'm going to go and get a coffee, and maybe something to eat. I think I can just about manage to plan that far ahead.

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Inch-thick layers of dust: vacuuming is good for this. Well, it's how I deal with it, anyway. When I finally decide I've had enough of it, that is.

Mum was a library assistant for years - not incredibly well-paid but no training required! Is there anywhere you can get proper careers advice? I know there's something out there with your name on it, but have no idea what it is.

Hoiho: He's right, he didn't say he would. He said he'd "like to" and he "may well do so". I shouldn't have expected a reply to my SMS asking whether we should be expecting him...