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After weeks and months of chaos, things feel like they're finally starting to come back under reasonable control. There are signs of progress:

  • at work, in the form of a handful of fixes which ought to address the current stability problems
  • at home, in the form of articles that have been on my to-read pile since sometime in February
  • with my feet, today being the first blister-pain free day I've had in over a month. With hindsight, I really shouldn't have continued to run on them after the first time they started bleeding

Now all I have to do is address the perennial question of my continuing education — something that comes round at this time every year, and bothers me for a month or so before I realise that, thanks to (a) doubts about my abilities, (b) worries about not being motivated enough, (c) an accute lack of confidence, enough time has passed to make the whole thing impossible for another academic year — and all my problems with be solved.

Maybe.

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From the Department of Five Random Things Make a Post:
  1. The arrival of a big box of book swag, in the form of Corambis and The Mirador, the last two books in Sarah Monette's Doctrine of Labyrinths series. Sadly my second hand copy of The VirtĂș has yet to arrive having had farther to travel, so I'm going to have to dip into something else until it arrives.
  2. Saw what may have been a swift while out for my evening run. I'd initially marked it down as a swallow until I noticed the size and speed of the thing, it's swept back wings and lack of a long forked tail. After doing some research, I've discovered that we're at the very start of swifts' migration window, so it's just possible the bird I saw was an early arrival.
  3. Didn't much enjoy The Man Who Knows on R4 Extra. The thing seemed rather flat and the attempt to satirise the phone hacking scandal seemed rather heavy handed and clumsy. But that didn't stop me listing to the whole thing on iPlayer — I had to have something on while I did my domestic chores so I stuck with it hoping it was finally going to take flight, even though in the end I found that it really didn't.
  4. In a sad reminder that everything has an LD50, the strange news that woman in New Zealand has died from hypokalemia from a combination of poor nutrition and 8-10 litres of coca-cola a day.
  5. There is no point five: this point has been left intentionally blank.

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