October and coffee

Just because it's October doesn't mean I'm allowed coffee for the first time this year - but it feels like it!

With next week comes the start of a new term at Uni.  I have already been down to experience (yet again!) the complete incompetence of the admin staff (various) there and have been plagued with a barrage of "it's not come back from the printers yet and we don't know when it will be back" to "it's in the internal mail so should be there tomorrow" (despite the fact that it was promised 2 days before!!!).  Such is academia and it is no wonder that our University system is groaning at the seams with cuts being made in all the places except the one's where they should be made..... rant over!

The wind is whipping round the house today and the rain is just in the air, no point in an umbrella today and even the cats don't want to go out.  This leads me to music for the day - Mendelssohn - Fingals Cave seems appropriate but I will also listen to Elijah.  There is much to do in terms of reading and prep for next week - and I feel that this will help calm the nerves a tad.

It's strange to think that a year ago I was embarking on this new whacky opt-out, mid-life crisis lifestyle of mine....It's been quite a year with friendships coming to an end (some quite dramatically - and people wonder why I love opera!) and a few illnesses along the way, some good times and some bad times and just some times....... as a person I'm more content in what I am doing and whilst I will bemoan the fact that I only got 72 instead of the idealised 84 I will try to appreciate the work that I do do and let that teach me where I can go and how I can progress.  This is fairly much my life philosophy and the music and cake sustain me in this.

Apple crumble and Birds yellow custard is the food of the day - apples freshly picked (or just fallen) off the tree, crumble (already made and sitting in a box in the freezer) and custard in a sliceable form.  For the un-initiated custard, in our household, comes in various forms - the really pale, runny, skinny, nerdy type of custard to the really thick, unctuous, bright yellow, here I am and you're going to love me, happy sliceable kind......today is definitely a day for the latter.  Enjoy as I'm off to make my coffee (Monsooned Malabar - yumm!).