Not good.

Well, the only piece of work I did today concerned some upcoming meeting which will decide whether my job exists come January. All the figures on how much the hardware, software and me cost the Uni have to be added up. By me, of course, because I am actually paid enough to be an administrator as well as the rest, oh yes. And the figures on how much the microscopes get used. And, it was implied today by one of the local team leaders, on how much the darkbox is used, a figure I don't have because he supposedly handles that. And he also says he doesn't have the lens for the camera on the other darkbox. Now, I remember him saying that he had it and I don't remember ever seeing it, but he says he gave it to me some time ago. He gave me the other one, certainly, but . . . what the hell. It's only a thousand quid. What are they going to do, take it out of my wages?

Don't answer that.

I don't really want this meeting to decide that the job should continue, but I can't really have it fall through because I've not got them the figures (or got the figures right) either. Can you tell that my heart's not really in this?

Still, NS tomorrow, so maybe there'll be an ad for something I can do. The Uni's job website is slightly lacking in that respect this week.

In other news, I'm not feeling significantly better than I was at the weekend and I just saw evidence that I might be more ill than I thought. And no, I'm not going to expand on that.

On the upside, Uncle Tungsten is an excellent book and everyone should read it.

Mmm. Banana.