Dazed, bothered and bewildered

Well, I am disgusted of Tunbridge Wells tonight. It has taken me about 3 separate efforts to realise that my email address had become corrupted on the sign in, but I couldn't see it so I could not sign in. This will turn into another super-boring post if I am not careful....
Busy trying to balance all the work, with the other work and the extra work. And the home scene being really stupid, with the broken computer and all. My laptop is coming under sustained attack now and it will get worse. Offspring considers I should buy another one 'for the house'. I think he should get a job and replace the one he broke. The laptop has been threatened with destruction, and my year;s work with it if I don't give him minimal (at present) access to it.
Got my invitation to the awards ceremony so that will be nice if the offspring wants to come this time, he is invited (again) but I cannot be sure he will bother, so I might have no guests. Better to invite a friend, really, but I feel I have to try to get him to at least one of these dos and having attended this one last year and the conferring in December, I know this one is the better deal - shorter, fewer people and better food, music and ambiance.
Then I'll be off to Venice a couple of days later, so lots to do. I have to prepare a presentation on Villa Barbaro. I intend to cover the inside-outside relationship and the nymphaeum more than the arch and frescoes, which we have really covered already last semester, but it still has to be done AND a 5000-word essay, with a paper presentation before we go...
glory-; I have actually forgotten what it feeks like to relax. Except I did a week ago, when I was pulled into a party, downed a buncha wine and got pushed into a table quiz. Well we came second, so not all bad, although I felt guilty for getting a question wrong, that I should have known, causing us to get in a tie-break, which we lost on the 3rd round. Well, it's like penalties, isn't it, you know you'll lose eventually....

There's no business like show business

Or there's my business, which is no business at all.
I should not be allowed to post when I am very tired.
It is past midnight now and whatever I write will be very foolish and probably not even true.
Not much of what I wrote last time was remotely correct: I was reading the statement upside down, so the bottom line wasn't at the bottom of the page but at the top and it did indeed show all transactions to date.
I did enjoy seeing my little bit of earned money in there.

I go to the Bank at 10 AM

When I re-read this entry,
I had to add this image.



I had to lodge a rather
large cheque, -
by my standards, and as it
was the second such in
several weeks, I decided to do
so in person and check
that the first cheque had
reached its destination
from the Quick-Lodge,
or, possibly,
throw-your-money-in-this-bin-suckers,
drop, where I left it. I was offered a statement - since I won't be due one for another month, the cheapskates. I accepted. 'It will show all in- and out-goings since your last statement in November' she said. 'Great' I said, forgetting that I particularly wanted to check that my earnings from exam invigilation had been paid into the account on Thursday, as promised by the college.
It was only on the bus later, as I looked at the 3-page-long statement (sobering reading), that I realised that it went up to 14 January only, so although I was relieved to see my grant was in there, my earnings and today's prize money, did not appear.
I don't know when I will find the time to go to the bank again, so I will have to wait until my March statement, I suppose. It is difficult to go to the Bank early, or very late in the day since it shortens my work day so severely, but if I go at other times, I may have to queue for 30 minutes. I should set up Internet banking but would it help with lodgements; I don't see how it could.
It is all so boring, but better than having no money at all. This money has to last me a longish time and pay for all the Venice trip upfront because that will not be reimbursed until the summer.
I am still better off than I used to be, so - no complaints this time.

THIS IS THE MOST BORING POST I HAVE EVER WRITTEN.