Today I'm exhausted. It's probably a combination of things both physical and mental (perhaps too much sherry and too many chocolate buttons) but the net result is that I feel as limp as a wrung out rag!
It was the first day of the new semester at University and I had to be there for my first lecture at 9am. Living on a peninsular as I do, the traffic to get off in the mornings is such that I have to leave at 7.15am to get there in time. Normally that wouldn't be a problem but I was up until after midnight helping DD#2 with her final preparations for her move to Plymouth today. Her Royal Marine husband had already moved ahead of her and was living on the base until both she and their furniture arrived today so she spent last night with us.
She had to leave by 4am so I was up before then to see her off; both DH and myself already feel a huge gap because she's not here - we're going to miss her like mad. I couldn't really get back to sleep and it seemed that the moment I did, the alarm went off at 6am and then I was on that morning conveyor belt, showering, doing my hair, making packed lunches and ironing shirts.
I made it in time for my lecture: it finished at 11am and then I had a three hour wait until the next one began at 2pm. In that time, I sat in the canteen and tried reading a bit of 'Mrs Dalloway' by Virginia Woolf (which I'm supposed to have finished by now) ... thirty pages in, I decided it's one of the most boring books I've ever scan-read in my life! It took three cups of strong black coffee to stop my head from tipping forward, comotose and pinning the book to the table.
On a more positive note, I picked up three of my summative assessments today and was delighted with marks of 62, 65 and 68 (all 2:1 level
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I just hope I can keep this standard up in the weeks and months ahead.
A long, tedious, traffic-laden journey home in the dark just about finished me off so here I sit now typing this with all the energy of Eeyore on a slow day.
On the diet front, there have been a couple of side-steps (namely the sherry and buttons) but on the whole, I'm finding it pretty easy to stick to. My first official weigh-in on the 22nd will reveal just how effective this 1000 plan really is. Or isn't.
