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Yesterday I was very motivated. I wanted to detach an important attachment pertaining to an article I have to write from my mail mass on cus, but my file space was so close to quota that any copying seemed impossible. So I moved all my archive of compressed mail from the last 7 years or so from cus onto iguana, my own computer (which now has enough HD to cope). And suddenly my cus filespace is half-empty! Amusingly, I think the very first item I have stored in this enormous archive is an email from me to IWJ, asking him out in November 1995...
Went back to college, did laundry, went to college library and UL to borrow various books viz. Propertius' Elegies, Iris Murdoch's The Sandcastle, the Cambridge Reading Greek course and a linguistics textbook published by the OU. The latter two are books used on the courses I've applied to teach at the OU, so I wanted to familiarise myself with them before interviews (hopefully!) materialise. The former two are relevant to a piece I want read at our wedding ceremony - part of Propertius, which also happens to be quoted (and amusingly translated) in The Sandcastle (which features a Latin lesson). I remember reading that book a lot when I was a teenager. Likewise Forster, and Jeanette Winterson. (These days I mostly read SF.)
Had bath, and caught bus back to Chesterton because it was raining. Someone's baby threw up in the bus, all over the floor. The smell was terrible. The mother ended up borrowing tissues off half the people in the bus to mop it up ... poor her.
Went to the Green Dragon, where various of my geek circle were having their Thursday night pubmeet. G came and joined us after a bit. He told me that the letting agency informed him today that another couple are going after the place on Mill Road as well, and we'll hear whether we've got it in a couple of days. It seems to come down to the landlord's preference, based on vague details about us relayed to him (in Ireland) by the confused woman at the letting agency. I fear the other couple will get the place now.
G is gleefully playing his new game atm - Tribes II. He has stayed up pretty much all night playing it the last couple of nights, and hence has been asleep most of the day.
Oh, I do feel beset by things at the moment.