I can't sleep

I would attribute this to having drunk lots of tea and eaten lots of cakes and biscuits this afternoon/evening. I think it might also have something to do with getting used to sleeping curled up with Alec and not sleeping so well by myself. I wish we had a double bed.

I held afternoon tea.

Guests: Alec, Sam, Ed, Andy T, Harry, Toby, Gareth, Eliot and chemchik

Food: Chocolate cake, Lemon poppy seed cake, Ginger bread (Little Book of afternoon Tea), Almond biscuits (Little Book of Afternoon Tea), Raisin and nut flapjacks (Vegetarian Student Cookbook), crumpets and cucumber sandwiches.

It was lots of fun.

Alec and I have also decided to join Cambridge Dancers' Club. I want to learn Argentine Tango and he feels Ballroom may be better to begin with. I'm very much looking forward to it.

In other news, I was supposed to do optional mid-terms this week but I got a stinking cold on Tuesday so only made the first one. I've got a private tutee so I may now so I may go over the stuff I'm going through with her tomorrow whilst I try to get to sleep.

I'm not sure that this will make much sense. Insomnia not good.

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I finally got to sleep at 6 this morning so I slept in until 11:30. I woke up with a tea hangover*. At least whilst I was awake with insomnia I read through the lecture notes for the topic I'm seeing my tutee about today.

So, plan for today:
Email potential supervisors
Look over a couple of exam questions so I can go through them with my tutee
Buy: darjeeling, ginger, saucepan**
Make carrot and ginger soup
Take my bicycle to the bike man in the market to fix the front break***
CSLD exec meeting
Supervise tutee
Cook vegan shepherds pie and eat it with Alec
Put away afternoon tea things
Tidy
Laundry

Edit: To add to the fun I've just got an email telling me that I have to confirm my final exam choices by next Monday despite the paper I think I might want to take not beginning to have lectures until after then. I did know what optional paper I wanted to do but, despite both myself and the person teacher the paper being happy to procede with it, they withdraw the paper. I would be really angry if I weren't so exhausted and listening to Mama Cass

*A tea hangover is what one experiences the morning after an evening of drinking too much tea. It involves:
dehydration from the caffeine
tiredness from the rubbish night's sleep due to the caffeine
general crap feeling from coming down from the cake induced sugar high

**The saucepan I have been using since mine was stolen because it didn't seem to have an owner, did have an owner her took it back to her kitchen last night.

***My bicycle has lever breaks which are more ornamental than practical. The front one 'pinged' yesterday when I tried to break to avoid going under a bus. I think Alec might just not have the knack of adjusting them and I'm hoping the bike man will.

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So, how did I do today:
Email potential supervisors (I emailed 3 people, two of whom replied to say that they are about to leave the university)
Look over a couple of exam questions so I can go through them with my tutee (I didn't get around to it but my tutee just wanted to go through the lecture notes together)
Buy: darjeeling, ginger, saucepan (The tea man was closing up when I got there. I bought a set of three saucepans for £9.50 from M&S.)
Make carrot and ginger soup
Take my bicycle to the bike man in the market to fix the front break (He said that the problem was that Alec had put part of the bits on the lever breaks on the wrong way around, but as it was mid afternoon he asked me to bring it back tomorrow so I chained it up by GSM and will take it back before lectures tomorrow.)
CSLD exec meeting
Supervise tutee
Cook vegan shepherds pie and eat it with Alec
Put away afternoon tea things
Tidy
Laundry

I also emailed my DoS to ask to meet him to discuss my dissertation and specialist subjects. He replied that he's not well so he can't see me this week. Oh well, I tried.

Tomorrow's 'to do' list:
Email more potential supervisors
Email tutee to arrange supervision time
Buy darjeeling
Take bicycle to bike man
Get books on potential specialist paper from the Marshall Library
Microeconomics lecture
Pre-conversion meeting with my sponsoring rabbi at which I will tell her I'm dating a non-jew.