I'm not really here, just sneaking past the door so you can't see me

Just thought I'd quickly mention that I'm on the Sydney Community Radio Station 2ser tonight at 7pm, on their Book Show, called Final Draft. It'll be podcasted in a couple of days. I'm not sure if I'm up to hearing it myself, but I might get brave. I always sounds a tad squawky (or is that quacky?).

And very late last night, waiting for the PDFs to happen, I made the very airbrushed Manga version of myself above. Can't resist a challenge. The nose is much prettier than mine, and it's the hair I'm heading towards, not the hair I have now, but it'll do.

Back to work. Missing you.

Anyhoo...

I wasn't tagged for this meme, but I'm going to do it anyway, because I feel like it. So there. A simple post to mount at the end of a long day to move things along a tad.

What was I doing 10 years ago?
Regaining my equilibrium after a shocking 1997. Psyching myself up to go back to art school. Enjoying my healthy baby. Enjoying being single. Healing. It was a pretty good year, really.


Five snacks I enjoy in a perfect, non weight-gaining world

1. Cadbury's dairy milk chocolate with cashews.

2. Lemon Meringue pie.

3. Hot buttery mashed potato with lashings salt & pepper.

4. A bottle of very nice white wine.

5. Salt and vinegar chips (Friend of the Potato, me)


Five snacks I enjoy in the real world:

6. See 1-5 above

7. Mersey valley pepper cheese

8. Sourdough bread with goat curd and fresh tomato

9. cashew nuts

10. soft black liquorice


Five things I would do if I were a billionaire:

1. Buy a complete family of type, brand spanking new, imported from the US or UK. Oh bugger it, two complete typefaces, I'm a billionaire.

2. Fund a few international soup kitchens or some such worthy non-righteous helping cause.

3. Have a live-in masseuse.

4. Start a bicycle commuting service, with depots all around the city, allowing people to just grab a bike and use it, dropping it at the nearest depot to their destination.

5. Buy a house near a seaside cliff, complete with huge lavish studio. Never work for anyone ever again.


Five jobs that I have had:

1. Life Model

2. Taxi Driver

3. Coathanger turner (actually a minion in a women's clothing retail outlet, but this seemed to be the predominant duty)

4. David Jones chick

5. Grand Poobah of my own ultra-mini microbusiness empire


Three of my habits:

1. humming out loud when I remember something embarrassing I've said or done

2. dancing with my cat

3. taking my usual earrings out to wear something sparkly then forgetting to put anything back in my earlobes for months


Five places I have lived:

1. Victoria Barracks, Sydney

2. On the cusp of three counties in the UK

3. Kirwan, Townsville

4. Bend 4, Mt Nelson, Hobart

5. Toad Hall, ANU, Canberra


Not doing the tag thing. Follow your dreams.

(nabbed from The View from Elsewhere)

Ooh! A new meme!

Gawd, how long has it been? (I've been composing a things-your-cats-do meme in my head as I ride my bike; one day it'll get onscreen, unless anyone wants to start it first?)

Apparently these are the 106 books most often listed as 'unfinished' on LibraryThing. The rules are that you bold the ones you've read all the way to the end, underline the ones you read for "school" [I presume uni is included in this], and asterisk the ones you started but didn't finish.

I'm adding italic for those I've re-read. And gosh, I've surprised myself by what I haven't tackled yet. Still, I think I've done pretty well by the list.

Via Pavlov's Kitty, with admirable provenance before that.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The [A] Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West [but do want to read this ASAP]
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man*
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead*
Foucault’s Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible
1984 [I did my HSC in 1984. Say no more.]
Angels & Demons
Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
To the Lighthouse*
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune*
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values*
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow*
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield

Pav's meme for the weary

1) Which part(s) of your body is/are hurting as you read this? List all that apply.
neck
shoulders
wrist
fingers
lower back
upper back
jaw

2) Which of the following is/are no longer working properly? List all that apply.

a) feet
b) ankles
c) knees
d) hips
e) back
f) neck
g) brain
h) digestive system
i) blood pressure
j) memory
k) idealism
l) compassion
m) optimism
n) other (please specify) (NB -- if the answer is 'bits', and it may well be, that's on a strictly a need-to-know basis)
inner bits (well documented)

3) Has your hairline receded? (For both sexes.)
More like 'migrated'; it's moved down to my chin.

4) Is your hair the same colour it was ten years ago?
No. it was a bright red (enhanced, of course), then a dark black.

5) Is your hair the same colour it was ten days ago?
Um, yes, but with a couple more greys.

6) Do you know what colour your hair would be if you grew the colour out?
I chopped all the colour out a couple of years ago, to the horror of my friends.

7) Are you still content to have your photo taken?
More so than when I was a teenager!

8) Do you think that Brazilians and/or back, sack & crack waxes are ridiculous?
Utterly.

9) Or have you had one (or more than one)?
No, I'm averse to non-accidental pain

10) Did it hurt more than childbirth / falling off a ladder / root canal work / being attacked by a shark? (If not applicable, write ‘Not Applicable’.)
Not applicable.

11) Have you had root canal work?
No, but I'm sure it's around the corner

12) Have you had surgery on any of your intimate parts?
Yes. They don't seem very intimate when there's a team of people looking up them.

13) Were you evasive about it with your friends and relatives?
No. Love me, love my intimate parts.

14) How long have you known your oldest friend?
Gosh. High school. Before that I was shifting a lot.

15) How often do you have to grope around for a particular word before you remember it?
um...










...frequently

16) When you travel, do you take a special separate toiletries bag exclusively for your medications and other first aid supplies?
heh, not yet. Do you know, there's a fabulous display in the British Museum dealing with the amount of pills taken in a human lifetime? It's a woven piece of fabric representing a life span, with pills slotted into the weave at appropriate places. After the age of 50 the pills start increasing, and by the end of the span it's jam-packed.

17) Does the thought of starting a new relationship

(a) fill you with horror
(b) make you giggle
(c) make you want to run away into the desert
(d) other (please specify)

(b). If this one fails, I'll be very happily living alone.

18) What have you found to be the most reliable mantras, slogans and shibboleths to get you through life’s bad moments?
This too shall pass.
Shit happens.

19) What makes you cry?
Songs. Movies. Books. Pain. Arguments. Frustration. Joy. Love. Oh hell, everything.

20) What makes you laugh?
Pretty much everything. Usually straight after I've cried.

21) Who were your musical gods and heroes when you were in your late teens/early 20s?
Joan Armatrading. Tracy Chapman. The Lighthouse Keepers. The Violent Femmes. Ricki Lee Jones. The Doug Anthony AllStars. And many, many more. I like/d music of all shapes and sizes a lot, but I'm not one to worship.

22) Is/are he/she/they still alive?
In one form or another.

23 Which of these is no longer what it once was? List all that apply.

a) your ability to metabolise alcohol or other drugs of choice.
Uh huh. I stick to white wine these days.
b) your desire to metabolise alcohol or other drugs of choice.
Um, yep, I'm off the weed.
c) your desire to dance.
Nope, still happy to hussle.
d) your ability to dance.
Nope, still able to shimmy.

24) Have you now been to enough funerals to have definite and detailed ideas about how they should be organised and run? If yes, please elaborate.
No, thankfully. I haven't been to a funeral for years, although I've been to a few earlier on.

25) Have people started trying to help you across the street?
Heh. That made me giggle. No.

26) Could you get up on karaoke night and sing 'Non, je regrette rien' without bursting into howls of hysterical laughter?
No.

27) If not, please explain.
Because I would bugger up the lyrics so badly that I'd be laughing along with everyone else.

28) What about 'My Way'?
Oh, yeah. I could sing that straight-faced. But I wouldn't, because I'd look like a pill. It's a bloke's song.

29) When did you last have a drink?
An hour ago.

30) What was it?
chilled Verdello

31) Can I have some?
Anytime. It's waiting for you.

Meme. You have been warned.

I am procrastinating because I'm not enjoying the (evening layout) job I'm supposed to be doing, and I printed the last page of my book today (still have to print the bookcloth) and I'm eating black jellybeans and drinking cask white (which weirdly go together very well) and The Librarians has drawn to a close [sob] so I'm joining the party:

1. Are you dating the last person you kissed?
No, I kissed Bumblebee goodnight tonight. I'm not up for Oedipal drama.

2. Pretend you've had 10 beers. what you would be doing right now?
Vomiting. I hate beer.

3. What do you want?
Howard voted out John Laws to retire Bush impeached.

4. Who was the last person you shared a bed with?
Best Beloved, although I don't think a 30-70 split (his way) is sharing.

5. Do you talk to yourself?
Yes. Constantly. I'm slowly surrounding myself with cats so that people won't notice, although I can't take them to work unfortunately.

6. Do you drink milk straight from the carton?
No. Erk. How American sitcom.

7. Who knows the latest secret about you?
Naomi.

8. How long is your hair?
Short. Damn short. Although not shaved. If we'd gone to the Woodford Folk Festival this January I'd have shaved it (so hot!). Luckily for my hair I'm going to Tasmania.

9. Do you like Batman?
Better than Spiderman but not as much as Wonder Woman.

10. Who was the last person who told you they loved you?
My Auntie Lou, on the phone tonight. I love her, too.

13. Do you like anyone now?
No, I dislike quite a few people, mostly strangers who piss me off in myriad ways.

14. When was the last time you lied?
I tell white lies. So sue me.

16. Is your birthday on a holiday?
It occasionally falls within the October long weekend, huzzar!

17. What instant messaging service do you use?
Laura's answer to this is the best. one. ever.

18.Last thing you cooked today?
If by 'cook' you mean 'assemble food for ingesting', then a handful of black jellybeans and a glass of cask white. I've been eating leftovers and takeaway the rest of the day.

19. Did you have a nap today?
No, they make me cranky.

20. Whose house did you go to last?
Mine.

21. What do you wear more, jeans or sweats?
Jeans. And I wear them until they can stand by themselves.

22. Why is the sky blue?
It's lulling us into a false sense of security while we prepare for the graduating students' exhibition and then it will piss down hard upon the hordes as they hand out the prizes in the courtyard -- just like every year.

23. Do you like green beans?
Yes, especially the flat ones, which last a lot longer in the fridge than the round ones. That's very important for the domestically challenged.

24. Do you swear a lot?
Fuck oath.

25. Where did you get the shirt you're wearing?
Vinnies.

27. Do you use an alarm clock?
Best Beloved is as regular as clockwork, if Padge doesn't get there first. Who needs mechanical objects?

28. Where was your default MySpace picture taken?
My what?

29. Do you ever snort when you laugh?
No, but my mother does, to general family hilarity.

30. Whats the first thing you notice on the opposite sex?
That they're making instant judgements on the way I look.

31. Is cheating ever okay?
Ahem. NO. But if you'd asked me 20 years ago...

32. Do you want someone you can't have?
I want a masseur for daily use.

34. Do you wear underwear?
Yes, of course. I noticed this morning that most of them are a bit raggy.

35. Do you wear a bra?
Only if I think I can't get away without one. I prefer not to.

36. What Size?
What does it matter? They're all uncomfortable.

37. Are you a social or an antisocial person?
Social when I'm around people, antisocial when I'm not. This is not as silly as it sounds. I shun human company until I'm actually in it, then I quite enjoy it.

39. Do you have a tan?
I have a truckie's tan, only on my arms, and my right arm is darker than my left.

45. Are you afraid of the dark?
No. When you're in the dark it's not actually that dark.

[Questions 40-44 missing, who knows why.]

47. Do you miss someone today?
Yes. I was supposed to guide someone around the art school but they didn't turn up.

49. Do you still have pictures of you & your exs?
Yes. My son thinks they're hilarious.

50. Who's always there for you no matter what?
Me. I don't let myself down very often.

Poppy meme

I got tagged for a meme today. I feel like a jaded old blogger when I not only get tagged, but when the tag comes with rules and they make me smile for no other reason than I've read them in some variation or other for years now:

Rule-posting first:

1. Link to your tagger and post these rules on your blog.
2. Share 5 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
3. Tag 5 people at the end of your post by leaving their names, and links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

Goodness. Is there anything I haven't written about myself? I'm such a blurter, even my mechanic probably knows more about me than my parents.

1. I hate the lead-up to Christmas. Call me Scrooge, but I don't want to hear a jingle or see red and green until at least December. My son's school has gone into caretaker mode, ceasing all useful activities because it's 'close to Christmas' (still 5 weeks of school!). I'd rather they just let them out of school two weeks early than make them do all the mindless gumph like cutting and pasting and video-watching while the teachers run around organising the next year. And I loath supermarkets at Christmastime, which seems to be the end of September until 25 December, when suddenly it all ceases and the deco changes in favour of New Year's Day/Australia Day/ Easter. GAH.

2. I love cats' nipples. Especially on boy cats. That is intelligent design.

3. Every time I try to clean the house for my mother-in-law, the vacuum cleaner needs a new bag or filter and there's no time to get one. Trying to pass off the brown carpet covered in black cat-hair swirls as an animal print pattern seems a bit desperate.

4. I just don't get PCs. My brain can't cope with their functionality.

5. I would sell my soul at the moment for another month or two of cool weather. Printing in heat sucks.


Hmmm... tagging... trying to think of people who would like the thought of another meme... Bernice, because she needs to de-stress and her answers always crack me up. TimT, because he never seems stressed and everything he writes cracks me up. The Brontes, because we can never know enough about them and they need a bit of a bum-kick. Dean, not because he's un-memed, but because I want him to write 5 interesting things about his new car. And... Megsie from GlassCentralCanberra. Maybe 5 random things about the sexiness of the Canberra Glass scene? Heh.

Better late than never

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A bit of a slow Tuesday; been cruising the blogs I've been too busy to read, and found this at Pav's.

ERTAM

I'm going to pick up Christy's general tag and do the EIGHT RANDOM THINGS ABOUT ME meme, as if my memory isn't random enough and just in case you feel I don't talk about myself enough :) I'm sitting in my art school office waiting for Bumblebee to be dropped off after circus school (thank goodness for car pooling) and all my scrabulous games are waiting for other people, so here goes. (Apologies if I've written any of this stuff before. I told you my memory is random.)

1. I hate tight things around my neck. This ties in with hating to wear anything that makes me think about it while I wear it: tight/high shoes, tight bras, things that cut in under the arms, g-strings. I try to be comfortable at all times and I tend to wear things I can run in.

2. I hate to run. But I'm prepared for the need to.

3. When I think about walking on a sloping roof or a high slippery place, the soles of my feet tingle (they're doing it now).

4. I love romantic comedies. It's the girliest thing about me, and something I feel a vague sense of shame about, thanks to the pre-lipstick feminism that I inherited from my auntie godmother (see also points 1 & 2). Doesn't stop me from watching them.

5. I went to Kirwan High in Townsville for a while. Also Randwick High in Sydney. I went to a lot of schools, actually.

6. I always knew I would be a single mother. I didn't think I would ever find a man I wanted to stay with for a lifetime. The jury is still deciding on that one. (Don't worry, we're still in love! But a lifetime is hopefully a LONG time.)

7. I feel all sparkly on days when I physically make something that isn't a bed or a meal. Books and prints usually fit the bill.

8. I can't live without a novel beside the bed. But you knew that.

Have a go if you feel like it.

TTFN

Remember to quiz

You Are Paper

Crafty and creative, you are able to adapt freely to almost any situation. People tend to underestimate you, unless they've truly seen what you are capable of. Deep down, you're always scheming and thinking up new plans. Your mind is constantly active. You are quite capable of anything you dream of. You can always figure out a way to get what you want. You can wrap a rock person up in your sheet of trickery. A scissor person can sneak up and cut you to pieces. When you fight: No one can anticipate your next move If someone makes you mad: You'll attack them mercilessly when they're unprepared

Are You Rock, Paper, or Scissors?

Good morning, starshine

You Are Sunrise

You enjoy living a slow, fulfilling life. You enjoy living every moment, no matter how ordinary. You are a person of reflection and meditation. You start and end every day by looking inward. Caring and giving, you enjoy making people happy. You're often cooking for friends or buying them gifts. All in all, you know how to love life for what it is - not for how it should be.

What Time Of Day Are You?

Snaps to Pavlov's Cat

This Random Life

Ooh, I like this little meme at A Cunning Plan:

RANDOM MUSIC THINGY

1.Open your music library.
2. Put it on shuffle.
3. Press play.
4. For every question, type the song that's playing.
5. When you go to a new question, press the 'next' button.
6. Don't lie.

Opening credits: The Thing about Grief - Claire Bowditch
Waking up: It happens every time - Tim Buckley
First day of High School: Crazy Times - Gnarls Barkley vs Team 9
Falling in love: Uncertain Sins - Penny Flanagan
Fight song: Streets of Your Town - The Go-Betweens
Breaking up: A Fool for You - Ray Charles
Prom: Needed Time - Eric Bibb
Life: Le Moulin - Amelie Soundtrack
Mental breakdown: The One you love - Rufus Wainwright
Driving: Purple toupee - They Might Be Giants
Flashback: Champion Cellphone - Team 9 vs Beck vs Fatboy Slim vs Brandy
Getting back together: We will become silhouettes - The Postal Service
Wedding: That Way - The Go-Betweens
Birth of child: Heavy Soul - The Black Keys
Final battle: Leather - Tori Amos
End credits: Wildwood - Paul Weller + Portishead

Heh. That was an odd journey, especially since I've never been to a Prom. I love random, it was the best thing invented EVER. I have some albums I've never heard in the right order, ever.

BTW: Bumblebee is much better now, judging by the way he just scoffed his soup and jelly. I think he'll be back at school tomorrow!

Addendum

Having run with this meme, I should probably commit myself to the rest of it (I don't believe it: virtual peer pressure!). Pav sensibly cut these bits out, but I've always been a sucker for filling out questionnaires. The only ones I say no to are Scientologists, and even they manage to fool me for a few seconds occasionally.

1. What shirt are you wearing?

A long-sleeved black kenjiurban t-shirt that I found at Vinnies about a year ago. On top of that I'm wearing a black polar-fleece vest, because the sun is warm but the wind is still bizarrely chilly for November.

2. Name the brand of your shoes you're currently wearing?

Birkinstocks. Everything else is too narrow since I went to the Deutsch Side.

3. Bright or Dark Room?
Indirect daylight through the window, no lights on. A bit on the dull side, but great for computer work.

4. What do you think about the person who took this survey before you?

I second Laura's motion.

5. Where is your nearest 7-11?

Um, not sure. There was one in Civic, but I haven't looked at it for a while. It may not be there anymore; shops in Civic move like trees in The Lord of the Rings.

6. Who told you he/she loved you last?

Either Best Beloved or Padge, but the latter may actually have been 'feed me' in Purr.

7. How many drugs have you done in the last three days?

Recreational or medicinal? Ah, let's not go there.

8. How many rolls of film do you need developed?

I've had a roll of black & white slide film in the fridge for about ten years now. I think I'd better chuck it; I haven't got an SLR camera anymore.

9. What do you do when vending machines steal your money?

KICK THE MACHINE VERY HARD and SWEAR. As I walk away people snatch their kids from my path.

10. Are you touchy feely?

Fairly. I tend to pat people on the back in a jolly and encouraging (and probably annoying) way, but I don't do random hugs. BB does cheek kisses when saying goodbye, so I've learned to do it too, although if the person looks freaked out by them, I don't repeat the experience. I can be freaked out by others doing them to me! With my loved ones I'm extremely demonstrative.

11. Name three things that you have on you at all times?

My glasses. My phone. My wedding ring.

12. What was the last thing you paid for with cash?

Right at this moment I'm proud to say secondhand copies of Sylvia Plath's Arial and Jasper Fford's The Eyre Affair. There's a secondhand book shop next to Bumblebee's school, which is my constant budget downfall.

13. Does anything hurt on your body right now?

My nose still hurts from its random fly-by fruiting.

14. How much cash do you have on you?

About $50 (I had more before the bookshop attacked my purse), but I'll have to get some more out for the farmer's market tomorrow. No cash machines near the fresh produce.

15. What's a word that rhymes with “DOOR?”

Semaphore.

The more I look at this quiz, the more I think Bernice is right. This probably originated on some kind of internet dating service, don't you think?

First fluffy thing of the day

I couldn't resist this meme... thanks to Pavlov's Cat

YOUR MOVIE STAR NAME
(grandfather/grandmother on your father's side, your favorite sweet/lolly):

Ann Cherry-Ripe


YOUR FLY GIRL/GUY NAME
(first initial of first name followed by "izzle", first two or three letters of your last name followed by "dizzle"):

Aizzle Ducdizzle (blog name)

Cizzle Flodizzle (heh, works better using my real name)


YOUR DETECTIVE NAME
(favorite color, favorite animal):

Crimson Pussycat


YOUR STAR WARS NAME
(first 3 letters of your name- last 3 letters of mother's maiden name, first 3 letters of your pet's name repeated twice):

Carane PooPad (decided to use both cats once)




SUPERHERO NAME
("The", your favorite color, the automobile you drive):

The Crimson DL

And my superhero weapon of choice is a pair of thigh-high red 7-league boots.

Books amongst the architecture

byrd did the book meme! He shyly plopped it in the comments section of my wistful joke (below), along with his kids' book response for the gorgeous kids that are shared by the loverly Godomestic. Hooray byrd! Go Domestic!

I'm having fun today

You Are From Saturn

You're steady, organized, and determined to achieve your dreams. You tend to play it conservative, going by the rules (at least the practical ones). You'll likely reach the top. And when you do, you'll be honorable and responsible. Focus on happiness. Don't let your goals distract you from fun! Don't be too set in your ways, and you'll be more of a success than you ever dreamed of.

What Planet Are You From?

LCB

This is so much more fun than playing umpteen different versions of Solitaire when I can't be arsed doing any work.
Let's try this pop quiz:
You work from home. You take a few moments to clear your brain between computer chores. What do you do?
a. Do your physio exercises
b. Play some cards on-screen
c. Hang out the washing
d. Do a quick batch of washing-up
e. Write your Blog
In the past, my answer would have been [b.], which would place me in the category of Lazy Computer Bint. These days, however, it's generally [e.], which salves my conscience and makes me feel like I'm doing something useful. Actually, I only know of only one regular reader, so I'm really only doing this for myself, which puts me more in the category of PCB (Procrastinating Computer Bint). What I need to be is Wonder Woman, which means that I would do [c.] and [d.] while incorporating [a.] but then needing a good lie down before I could do any more computer work. Yeah, like that's any fun.