Thursday 16th August 2007

7.50am. Today's schedule involves meeting at 8.15 with a chap from Routledge to discuss a book project, tidying up and finishing off the Open Day presentation I worked on yesterday, and being on duty to deal with queries about applications during the clearing process... If there's time left I also want to do more work on my PIPG paper.

2.20pm. Had my meeting and finished off the open day talk, dealt with a student query over the phone, but didn't get round to the paper or anything much else and am finishing early! Since it looks like I'm heading towards another book-writing deal I suppose I should sort of be celebrating, but at this stage it looks a little daunting amongst all the other ongoing commitments and the final outcome looks a long way off, so I'm not sure that celebration is the mood of the moment: especially since I'm suddenly feeling a bit overwhelmed by the amount of pressing jobs that I'm not currently making a lot of progress on. I think I'd better make a list and start working my way through it! I will not be able to get much work done until next week, now, so I'm hoping to have a good week next week and get back on top of things. Ha!