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Date: 13 September 2005 16:26:48
Ok, so on the work side of things, nothing has gone specifically wrong recently (which makes a nice change!). I had a productive day at Oxwich yesterday, and managed to get through everything on my list :) I also stumbled across some of the estate workers with a crowd of BTCV volunteers clearing the scrub from one of the dune slacks. This is all very well, and will probably be one of the eventual recommendations of my project in terms of management. But at the time I was trying to photograph the area to show the scrub development, and half of it was gone!!! And now my mapping category is outdated even before I've finished the project! Which is quite and achievement I must say. It's more amusing than anything else, and at the same time I was able to pin down one of the guys about some questions I needed answering, and he said they'd be glad to have my help there when I'm finished, especically since I know the site so well now! So all in all a good day.
Then I got home. And was supposed to be able to move (within the same house this time, so not quite so much upheaval), which I was looking forward to, given that a certain amount of my furniture had been half-inched the day before (which I was expecting, and was entirely legitimate) and my things were in a heap in the middle of the room. However, due to the incompetencies of letting agencies, the person who was supposed to be moving out couldn't, so I couldn't move either. And everything stopped. So things are (or maybe were, I'll see when I get home) more than a little crazy there right now.
It's no one's fault, these things just happen. But I'm all over the place with the work now. I've been to see the appropriate people about extending the deadline- extenuating circumstances and all- and that seems to be ok, have to wait for a response. The deadline of end of October would be fine were it not for the fact that I thought it was the end of September till a week ago, and so planned a holiday with the parents accordingly (we're going to Canada for 2 1/2 weeks from 11th to 27th October, so in fact I only have an extra week or so, and could do with that extra month when I get back. I'll see what happens. Technically, there's a second deadline which is January, and we can't be peanalised for handing in any time before then. I don't think it's going to be that simple. Ho hum. What with all the stuff that happened about this time before I finished my degree, I'm starting to wonder what it's like to be facing important deadlines without extra hassles to make it harder!
Anyway, regardless of deadlines, extensions and anything else, I have to go now- or I'll never get it done. Any spare prayers sent this way gratefully recieved.