Last night involved a mad panic and lots of shouting as I did six months’ worth of portfolio stuffing in one night. This is the point at which my beloved’s procrastination becomes A Good Thing, as it means he hasn’t got a chance of being able to criticise me on the topic *g* The poking-their-nose-in visit went well considering we were all violently diseased and braying or honking at the departmental rep every few minutes. As ever, most of the actual contents of the portfolio is just there as padding, although I did get to flick through it a bit to illustrate the points we were making, so it didn’t strike me as an enormous waste of time to do anything beyond the English and Maths sections, as it has on occasions in the past.

The rest of today involved bugger all formal work, although B and E did sit down to do some Lisp at one point. Dinner table conversation touched on the Black Death and disease vectors, with mad cow disease and kuru for good measure. And now I’ve gone and distracted myself, and spent the last fifteen minutes looking up kuru and the Black Death on Wikipedia. Interesting stuff! She spent a fair while in her room playing Runescape and watching Doctor Who. Yesterday was pretty similar, although K and I made blueberry muffins together, and B made chocolate brownies, virtually independently. V. yummy they were too… B decided not to go to Scouts tonight, which is something like the fifth night she’s missed, and I think the decision reached was that she wouldn’t go this term and would start back again next term, although I may be wrong here…

I must remember to note on B’s MS readathon form that she read some more of The Cat on the Mat is Flat to the rep this morning. She started reading it to me on the weekend, so that makes two “blocks” of reading to record on her form (I like having that option there). I found the actual form online and printed a copy, so now I can transfer over the records I’ve been keeping on my computer.

Too tired to write any more…must…go…to…bed……now……………….