So much is happening

1. Still no news on my thesis
2. I am finally feeling better, as of two weeks ago when i was given a different antibiotic. Memo to self: don't see registrars at the GP practice. They are kind and well-meaning, but they don't know you. One of them actually refused to look at my history, and took me off on a completely wrong track for a week. I still have a squarky voice, but I feel I am recovered.
3. Sandra has been teaching in Sao Paulo for two weeks. This is the same gig as she had two years ago, except that was in Palma de Majorca. This time I couldn't go for various reasons (including not having any leave), and I'm not sorry. She found it quite difficult – they were staying in a fairly ugly and slightly dangerous part of town, there were demonstrations every day which completely blocked all traffic, and she didn't find Sao Paulo in general to be the loveliest of cities. But I did miss her a lot.
4. I have had a chapter accepted for a book on women's experiences of supervising PhD students and being supervised. The editor said very nice things.
5. Next up - trip to NZ at the end of next week to visit family and attend the HERDSA conference, at which I am presenting on my PhD research.
6. The day I get back from NZ Sandra goes into hospital to have a knee replacement.
7. Work is insanely busy, and my boss has been told to organise a symposium on MOOCs to be held as soon as I return from NZ. Of course, I am the person he has delegated to actually organise it. Which is fine, but why can't people read what is written in their emails?
8. As a re-elected Vice President of the Knitters Guild of NSW I'm taking on more work.
9. See 1. Until I get the thesis done and dusted I don't feel I can turn the working parts of my brain to anything else. LIke knitting design or sewing, or writing fiction.
10. When I see it all written down like that I realise it's entirely rational to feel a bit... AAARRRGGGHHH!!!