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[slemslempike]

"Young person"'s railcard successfully renewed. I must remember to link it to my oyster card. I must find my oyster card - last time I was in London I had to buy an emergency spare. I think I dreamt that I found it the other night, either that or I did find it and now can't remember where. It would be useful to remember even if it was a dream, then I can at least check. Once I dreamt I found something in the pocket of a coat I don't even own, that was singularly disappointing.

Another thing I must remember to do is find my travel alarm clock. I bought it to go to on my African jaunt earlier this year, then couldn't work out how to set it and dismissed it as useless. I don't think it went off once when I wanted it to on holiday. When I unpacked I put it somewhere I can't remember, and now once a week or so (I think, the last time was this morning) it goes off at about 4am, for a short enough period that it jolts me awake, then once I've worked out what it is I try to locate the noise, then it stops and I go back to sleep. I must make a concerted effort to work out where it is before next week.

Things that are taking more time than I would like: my jobseeker's allowance claim ("oh, you'll not be hearing anything until at least the end of the week, I mean you only gave us the proof last week"); my transfer from my ISA to my current account; the payment of my expenses claim from December; the change of status on the FastStream site so that I can claim my train ticket and hotel room back. Because I have £30 left of my overdraft and it is annoying to know that I very much have the money (even excluding the dole the rest will clear my overdraft and leave me £300 in credit (though then I have to pay my writing up fees)) but cannot do anything with it. Lest you expend too much sympathy for me, all this really means in practical terms is that I have the added strain of having to remember the pin for my credit card, and at the absolute worst ask my parents to lend me some money until my transfer makes it, but STILL. HOW I SUFFER.

I went past a mirror earlier today and really liked how my face was looking. Also I am wearing She-Ra pants and raspberry pink socks. I sent off another revised chapter to my supervisors, and ANY MOMENT NOW I'm going to start work on the next. Two full chapters and a half-length conclusion left to revise and then I'll submit. My applications saying "will shortly complete" are starting to feel less of an outrageous lie.

Comments

[slightlyfoxed.livejournal.com]

How about you set another alarm clock for just before 4am, so you can be awake, alert and out of bed crouched in a pantherlike pose before the faulty blighter rends the air with beeps?

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I don't know when it goes off exactly. It just feels like a four am kind of time. I suppose I could remember to check the time next time it happens, but I am so bewildered I'll never manage it. Maybe I could just move house instead.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

My radio alarm clock sometimes - apparently randomly - goes off at midnight. I'm almost never in bed by then, so I'm not really very worried, but I have no idea why it does this. I think alarm clocks just like to keep us on our toes.

I hope your supervisors like your revisions. Do you have a meeting set up with them, or are you doing it all by e-mail at this point?

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I don't have that alarm clock! I hate being awoken anyway, but I think that I might have to start setting the alarm anyway to get back into the swing of things.

I'm waiting until they've had a chance to read all of them to get in-depth feedback, and then we'll meet. I can email/buttonhole them for ongoing crises though.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

When I was in the sixth form, my alarm clock had a beep, rather than a radio, and it sounded exactly like the sort of beep made by some lorries when they're reversing. I hated being woken up by it, and for years, the sound of a lorry reversing could make my blood run cold.

[whatho.livejournal.com]

I went past a mirror earlier today and really liked how my face was looking.

Yay! I like hearing things like that. Partly because I know a lot of people who hate looking at themselves in mirrors and I'm fine with looking at myself in a mirror and it makes me feel comparatively vain. But mostly because it's just nice to hear. I hope your money quits dawdling.