Lets see about this weeks news. Monday I was down for a supervision at Birmingham. It is becoming a bit of a routine, but I should have been suspicious when I started drinking lots of coffee that perhaps I was not as well deep down as I was on the surface. I got there, only to find no supervisor. Some clown had booked a meeting for him, that clashed with our supervision which was on the day he got back from Holiday!! After waiting for fifteen minutes I went to the departmental office (the first time I have been there as this was the undergraduate one at the Edgebaston Campus and previously I have always dealt with the postgraduate office at Selly Oak. I ended up having a coffee in the office and reading while waiting for him. Trains also were having bad days, the train I should have got, but remembered wrongly and did not get to the station in time for, didn't run (there are some advantages to forgetting things at times).
Tuesday was my birthday, my original plan was to visit Rotherham Local Studies library and then go out to Roche Abbey but I could not book a car (did the car system know something I didn't) so I changed it to going swimming. I woke up in the morning, feeling as if everything was too much for me, so after opening cards and pressies plus phoning my parents I went back to bed. When I am at home I tend to think "Life's too much I will go back to bed" instead of "Life's too much, uh oh migraine, go back to bed". Which meant that by mid afternoon I was thinking of myself as lazy and bullied myself into going swimming (not recommended with a migraine) So I did swim. I also stopped by Jessops and spotted they had a lens I wanted at a price cheaper than I was getting on the internet (they were selling off an end of line which was why) unfortunately they only had it with a Cannon mount which is not much good when as I have a Nikon Camera but I managed to order the lens over the internet. Perhaps swimming does lift migraine temporarily, but I still would not recommend it.
Wednesday woke again feeling grotty, this was a work day, so I had to put in the migraine line and ring people up. Actually I had spotted that there was migraine about as I was exhausted far more than I ought to have been the previous evening so made sure I had the phone numbers for the next morning ready by the phone. In the evening I installed my foot pedal onto my computer and started using it to transcribe. It was just so nice to have the recording played for audio typist rather than for a person to listen to. There are subtle differences. With audio typist mode it goes back slightly when you stop it so you can check the last few words and pick up where you are typing from. It is also easy to play a passage two or three times until you get what is said. With a normal listener mode it starts off exactly where it finishes and the one thing I have tiresome in the transcription is that the software does not easily go back about the last sentence, so I have to go back a whole chunk and listen to it again.
Thursday some more transcription in the morning. The old technique as I had started doing this recording this way. Then into work to find out what was on the go. Not much it seemed and finally got to shop for food in the evening. In other words a fairly normal day if there is such a thing.
Friday was in work all day. Actually spent most of the time dealing with people. Anybody want anything from Ghana or to send anything too Ghana as I think I have a courier in the next month due to having sorted out one person from a pickle they have got themselves into once again. Then I went out with the Dickson's to Nawaab's for a meal. They both seemed to enjoy it and we ordered too much food (about a third of it was left, when we had all reached the stage where it was physically daft to try eating anymore). They of course then offered us dessert! No we didn't have any and coffee was at my place.
Saturday was pretty quiet. I went down town for some bits and pieces and then started creating a powerpoint presentation to give to elders at Chesterfield. I am also aware I am going to have to use another method of writing my piece for the next supervision as the weekend I would write on is very booked around. However nothing exciting was bought.
Today I have been to St Andrew's Chesterfield both morning and night. The morning as I had finished transcribing an interview with a couple where the husband had since died and I therefore wished to hand the interview directly to his widow. I normally send them by post. The numbers were few but the Junior church had a good time, I could see it on their faces when they came out. I came home had something to eat and had a nap, then went off with my camera firstly towards Ecclesall woods to have a play (most of the pictures were duds) and then onto Longshaw Estate, where I discovered that the new lens I got works fairly well for taking pictures of birds at birdfeeders. I went straight on from that to St Andrews, or sort of, I was doing fine until I decided to follow roadsigns instead of my instinct and I managed to do a massive detour and arrive just after six. Fortunately with Just Desserts this does not matter.
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