{ I wrote on these walls a simple charm to keep the wolves at bay. }

[delga]

GUYS I AM SO BUSY. WHAT IS THIS BUGGERY?

I knew the reassessment period would be insane but we're initiating three new practices the same week the new financial year starts and whilst I'm fairly certain it's entirely doable, it's the fallout that's freaking me out a bit. The idea is to filter all paperwork through the admin team so that it can go straight onto the e-system. This is great! I am for this! But the scanner sits on two desks which means that three of out five days I probably won't have access; we're still going to be backscanning information; we'll be scanning the deads; there are still the usual workloads to deal with, plus reassessments.

PLUS I will probably be commuting by train again at this point which means I will lose 45 mins a day (because there's no way I can get in before 9:15) which is the equivalent of 9+ hours a week. So I will be going home later and reaching home later. I am pretty enthused about having full-on every-second-accounted-for days again because that kind of ubercontrol makes me feel very calm. But the upcoming workload is scary, mostly because I'm dependent on the senior staff doing their jobs on time.

Like: I was at the sub office on Tuesday and I took work with me. When I came back today, one of the seniors had decided to do a fortnight's worth of checking which meant I came back to work I already had to do plus new cases. Because that's how things go. And there are a backlog of deads because we've started pulling back-dated files to send to area teams and ARGH BUSY SO FUCKING BUSY.

Anyway, heading in early tomorrow, and then I have to catch the train home because EBL is going somewhere and/or leaving early. And I'm taking Monday off to visit The Flatmate before she leaves for Australia which - I love the girl terrible much but this is the worst time for this business. But it will be worth it, too, especially since we haven't met up since June. JUNE.

So, expect either more silence or more frustration.

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Fuck me, I really love all of Basia Bulat's latest album.

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My picfor1000 entry was terrible but at least it got done, and posted pre-deadline, whoop whoop. I'm trying to watch Being Human which apparently ended on Sunday what the hell. I have two episodes left, but I don't really know what to make of it, and I don't really know what to do with how I feel about the show right now. EMOTIONS. THEY ARE CONFLICTING.

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Back to the trains business again: ugh, this I could do without, but I am very much looking forward to getting my reading time back. Books! Here I come! I would be 50% less disgruntled if I could catch the direct in the morning but I'm probably going to have to resign myself to that goddamn connect. Ugh. There's no way I can get to the station in time for the direct; I already take the earliest bus. It'll be easier in June when they run the Even Earlier Bus but until then I am just going to be fucked. And probably lose weight because of the running (this part I also look forward to).

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I just skim-read this STUPID article about how, on their first meeting, Michael Douglas told Catherine Zeta Jones that he was going to father her children, which is ridiculous enough, but then - in parenthetical dashes - the article is all which initially turned her off EXCLAMATION POINT, as though this would be a stupid reaction. JEEZ.

But then, you know, he was right, har-har whatever the fuck.

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Has anyone here watched The Man from London? Oh god I am 20 minutes in and I just want to die.