on early rising
Saturday, 12 February 2005 05:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daThis morning's paper has an article about a new translation of Gilgamesh which claims it is actually a gay love story. Fun idea, though it would've been a better article if they'd also talked to a scholar who disagreed with the translator. I can't link to the Globe and Mail article (it's subscriber-only) and I can't find any balanced articles elsewhere with a quick google search, but at least here's an interview from the advocate.
I've been waking up early all week. Nothing serious, but it's a bit annoying to wake up at 5:00 for no good reason. d's been waking up in the night too; and I think these things feed off each other.
Yesterday I got tired of lying in bed worrying about my todo list. So I was an emailing fiend, getting out a batch of overdue emails I owed. I figured out some details for the syllabus of a quakerism 101 seminar I'm claiming that I'll lead starting next month. Then I got out of the house early, drove down to the Ontario Health Insurance offices, and renewed my health card.
At work, I knocked a few items off my todo list before noon... Well, sub-items. My work todo list is starting to look pretty bushy, items with pre-requirement items.
[deleted rant about an annoying software maintenance system nobody outside the university would care about, and few people in the university understand]
Anyway, work is going well, apart from the bushy todo list. I need to convince myself to leave in time to catch the bus, though- I've had some close calls recently. [Hm- I can have my computer turn on my monitor's power-saving mode at 5:05 and every minute there after... that sounds sufficiently annoying...]
Last night, while dan had a candidate dinner, I went out for drinks with my friend Eric. Fun.
Oh, and yesterday I also solidified plans for d's and my upcoming vacation to NYC, which I'm looking forward to. Feb. 24-27. It's been too long since I've been- five years; the last time was right before my grandmother moved in with my parents.
I've been waking up early all week. Nothing serious, but it's a bit annoying to wake up at 5:00 for no good reason. d's been waking up in the night too; and I think these things feed off each other.
Yesterday I got tired of lying in bed worrying about my todo list. So I was an emailing fiend, getting out a batch of overdue emails I owed. I figured out some details for the syllabus of a quakerism 101 seminar I'm claiming that I'll lead starting next month. Then I got out of the house early, drove down to the Ontario Health Insurance offices, and renewed my health card.
At work, I knocked a few items off my todo list before noon... Well, sub-items. My work todo list is starting to look pretty bushy, items with pre-requirement items.
[deleted rant about an annoying software maintenance system nobody outside the university would care about, and few people in the university understand]
Anyway, work is going well, apart from the bushy todo list. I need to convince myself to leave in time to catch the bus, though- I've had some close calls recently. [Hm- I can have my computer turn on my monitor's power-saving mode at 5:05 and every minute there after... that sounds sufficiently annoying...]
Last night, while dan had a candidate dinner, I went out for drinks with my friend Eric. Fun.
Oh, and yesterday I also solidified plans for d's and my upcoming vacation to NYC, which I'm looking forward to. Feb. 24-27. It's been too long since I've been- five years; the last time was right before my grandmother moved in with my parents.
