Today, I was PRODUCTIVE

[highlyeccentric]

Verily! I

* Was engaged in paid employment for 5 hours this morning.

* Went to the library and obtained many books on the Chanson de Roland, and also some books on AS England including the Encomium Emmae Reginae and an overnight loan of David Hills Atlas of Anglo-Saxon England.

* Read said Atlas. All of it, except for the bits about coinage and salt mines. Observed many interesting things (eg- King Cnut, once crowned King, never went north of Oxford or east of Shrewsbury).

* Translated fifty-odd lines of Beowulf

and

* Read 500-odd lines of Roland.

I am smug now.

Comments

[avedaggio.livejournal.com]

Careful there... the smugness shines like a beacon to the productivity gods, who will send a wrench the size of Queensland into your plans. And it will likely smell strongly of fish guts.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

Well THANKS for the positive re-inforcement :P. Rest assured, I know very well that productivity is always followed by SHIT, but I figure it'll happen anyway so I might as well be smug while I have a reason.

[avedaggio.livejournal.com]

Awww, didn't you see my tongue was in cheek?

I should have included the description of my impish grin. And srsly, congrats on the productivity!

:)

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

I did indeed see your tongue was in cheek, but I saw fit to petulantly ignore it :P