At the mercy of technology

Well, Frdiay morning dawned and I had a beautiful lie in until about 9. Mr Wonderful is working in Milan a bit at the moment so I was home alone. There are compensations, for example I get to lie diagonally across the bed and pile up all four pillows under my head. Slighty bizarre behaviour, especially considering that when he's there I use one pillow if any. I got up with the intention of sending off my essay and my second letter. I had to write a letter before I was accepted on to the conversion course, and now I'm near the end, I have to write another explaining what I've accomplished in the last 13 months. I finished both second letter and essay on Thursday evening and slept very well indeed. Only to wake up Friday morning and discover the network was down. Now if the better half had been in London, I would have called him, but he wasn't and usually when he's abroad he's even busier than normal, so I had to manage by myself.

The letter and essay went by e-mail today. Yes, I couldn't sort out the network. Whilst I was tidying, thinking about wedding flowers, reading a book by Telushkin, and eating (well, obviously) I considered how to do it. I tried saving the documents in the "shared" file, but in the absence of a network this was rather a silly idea. It was only this morning that I realised I could have used my USB (not to be confused with UBS, no matter how many times I try, I'll never fit a bank into my laptop) memory device thing and manualy transferred the documents. However, as I mentioned, I only realised today.

Now I'm on to the "final" stage. I've selected my Hebrew name (Chaya, meaning life) and now just need to draw up my revision time-table. I envision a Rimmer-esque scenario, in which I spend hours and hours colour-coding my topics and making sticky labels, but in reality I don't have time. I've got until 11 July, and as I work I'm out for at least 12 hours a day. Then there's sleep. Who needs sleep? Well, I do. Gone are the days when I could function on four hours' a night sleep, now I need to be smacked over the head with a cattle-prod after about 7 hours. And if I'm home alone I can sleep through alarm clocks. So it's a rigorously adhered-to bedtime for me this week - no later than midnight.