I thought I’d get up early on Friday as I still had loads to do and I needed to travel back home to London in the afternoon. I set my phone alarm so a horrendously early hour and had an early night. For the first time *ever* my phone alarm failed to go off (mostly because my phone had decided not to actually charge over night, despite being plugged in, and had run out of batteries) and so I woke up at my normal time and didn’t get home til 10.30 in the evening. Boo.

My lie-in on Saturday was somewhat curtailed by my phone alarm, having missed its moment to shine, deciding that perhaps I’d like the benefit of its company at 5.30am. Not amused.

Despite that, I had a fun weekend of sorting things out (TM), having a proper Sunday roast in a cosy Richmond pub with Kathy and streaming my first radio broadcast of 2007 out to a select few. Good times.

Bleurgh – another very busy day and, whilst I got a lot done, there seems to have been a similar sized pile of new things to do building up. Early start tomorrow, then.

But never mind that. Nikki reminded me that in all my Wii excitement I never mentioned my console number so that other people can add me and we can send swarms of miis to each other (and maybe actually play each other at games some time in the distant future). I’m 2706949624762041 (not got that memorised yet, but it’s the same length as a credit card number and I’ve managed to memorise a couple of those so give me time). If you have a Wii then let me know the number in a comment (or an email) and I’ll send you possibly the worst mii of Tom Selleck ever created.

This morning I couldn’t remember the feeling of satisfaction, because of my levels of stress. This evening I note that, although I’m working long hours and doing stuff which is hard to tight deadlines, I got a hell of a lot of things done today. And that feels good. It’s the same feeling I got after writing an essay at university, the same feeling I got after two insane weeks of tool-building at the end of 2002. The difference here is that I’m not finished yet; there’s still a lot to do by the end of the week. But I think getting this feeling now suggests that I’m getting better at judging when I’ve really been applying myself. And today I have.

By way of footnote, and before it gets too late, a few new year’s resolutions:

1. spend a bit less time absorbing and a bit more time creating;
2. get better at staying in touch with people (especially in light of my plans to move city);
3. lose 20kg.

I think this is possibly the first time I’ve ever made resolutions. We’ll see how they go.

Back to work with a bump. Far more of a bump than there should have been, really, given I was in for a couple of days last week . But, despite the looming deadlines, I felt the most lethargic I’ve been for a long time this afternoon. I’d blame a big dinner, except that I had sandwiches and fruit salad. So I’ll just have to blame my body gently reminding me that it didn’t get its two weeks of complete Christmas slobbery this year. Sorry, me.

Anyway, I’m sure I’ll be back into the swing of it tomorrow and I might even have a fighting chance of getting everything I need to done by the end of the week. Which currently sounds slightly delusional but, given a good run, may be almost plausible by tomorrow evening.

Earlier I was very excited to find that one person (other than me) reads this weblog via Newsgator Online (or possibly NetNewsWire – I don’t know if that also shows up in the subscriber numbers in Newsgator). Well to that person, and to anyone else reading this, have a very shiny new year.