oh really?

My sphere is Knight (Know Loyalty and Respect), and my class is Defender (Peaceful, yet Potent). I am a Retainer. To be a Retainer is to be the ultimate Knight. When the kings of old were threatened, or faced with any obstacle of special note, it was the Retainer they called upon to act in the liege's name. To be an excellent Retainer is to bring great honor to yourself and those you work for, while instilling happiness and security in the people around you. What kind of Warrior are you?

Doesn't look much like me, does it?

Crap. Maybe too late to get to the gym. Well, I'll try. At least I ordered my train tickets for next weekend and QuickTax (finally). And work is sorta maybe kinda under control. Such excitement!

Plants are well and truly dead though. They were very fragile plants, but I still feel rather guilty.

Mmmm... food.

Haven't cooked in a while. Well, technically I cooked on Saturday, but really, how excited can you get about fusilli and tomato sauce?

As I feared, didn't make it to the gym (it was 9:30 by the time I got there, and it closes at 10) but did go grocery shopping, so I have frozen fish and mini yogurts and things to tide me over. Also asparagus, which was wildly optimistic, but I'll cook it tomorrow -- it's in water.

I actually thought I'd have time to do some yoga. Hah.

Anyway, had a hankering for chicken stew a la Silver Palate but don't have a recipe, so made something up with chicken thighs and apricots and olives and almonds and stuff. It worked out pretty well (rather better than I have any right to expect actually). With brown rice. And crankygrrl, the vermouth worked out just fine, thanks.

Further sweeping my fridge of leftovers, I used up the rest of the salad mix (not dead yet!) and snacked on pineapple chunks.

Still haunted by the nagging feeling that I didn't get enough done today. Now, having completed all my backlogged timesheets yesterday (7 weeks worth -- and if my calculations are correct, I now have 199.5 hours of overtime stashed), and having in the process relived the last 7 weeks in excruciating painful detail, I know that this feeling is unreasonable. In the first place, it is impossible to get everything on your to-do list done in a single day. In the second place, I'm actively supervising 3 projects (one of which is actually two external and two internal projects rolled into one) with a further two hanging over my head, and one just completed. This tends to fragment your time a bit.

And yet. Nagging feeling that I am being slack persists.

If anyone can offer me a reasonable explanation as to why I demand so much more of myself than I would ever ask of anyone else, and how I can cut it out, I'm listening...

Clients continue maddening. ( Specifically... )

Book club Thursday, yay! And with any luck, I'll get to the gym tomorrow (and the LIBRARY... oh dear).