Zzzzzz
I still seem to be tired all the time, and I’m getting very little done. Even my blog posts are getting shorter.
Real life
Snip!
The surgeon agrees that I’ll need an op, and says that it’ll probably be September. Meanwhile, I need to stick to the boring diet. On the plus side, he can see no reason why he shouldn’t be able to do the keyhole surgery, which means a much faster recovery. Bring it on. I really miss cheese.
It’s official.
Today I formally graduated as a Starlight Guide. They held the ceremony at Palacio Salazar in Santa Cruz de la Palma. We had short speeches from the president of the Cabildo (the island government), the head of the Instituto de Astrofisica (the Institute of Astrophysics) and the head of the course, and then they called us up one by one and gave us our diplomas and ID cards. After the…
Ouch!
I got sucked into the internet and went to bed after midnight on Thursday. At 2 am Friday morning, I woke up with indigestion. Not typical down-in-the-guts indigestion, though. The pain was up under my ribs. So I got up and made a herb tea, hoping that would soothe it. Nope. In fact I was sick. Well, obviously I wasn’t going to be able to sleep, and there was no…
Not so free.
I think I made a reasonably thorough job of item one on my post-Starlight-Guide-course list, which was “Chill”. I don’t seem to have got much further, though. Well, I managed the overdue haircut before my fringe reached my jaw and I caught up with the laundry backlog and excavated the kichen. But I’ve made very little progress on the rest of the list. That’s partly because I’ve been doing a…
Paperwork Dragons
I should have done it years ago, but better late than never. I’ve finally started the process of getting my English university degree registered in Spain. Actually progress to date consists of going to the government offices this morning and asking what I have to do. So far it’s not as bad as I feared. If my subject (mechanical engineering) is on the list of EU professions covered by the…