17 May 2006

No run today....

Today I had to give a training course, something that I have to do 2 days a week. This one was particularly memorable because it was interupted by two personal physical problems. Firstly despite, or perhaps because of, all the running I've been doing a short (0.50km) walk carrying my (rather heavy) p.c. without a jacket and tie I arrived a total ball of sweat. My shirt was soaking and I had to go to the Gents to towel myself down and take my shirt off to cool down before I could start training. Then to my horror after an hour a small shaving cut on my chin re-opened and I was oozing blood for sometime before one of the students offered me a plaster. I took it and ran back to the loo and applied the plaster to my chin and spent the next 2 hours lecturing with a band aid across my chin - not a pretty sight.

I've tendered to carry on the training I'm giving beyond the end of the month, but occasions like this make me wonder if any amount of money is worth the ritual humiliation of being a lecturer....

On the up side I've just come back from an excellent dinner with my upstairs landlord and landlady Olga and Jim who decided to serve up Haggis and Scotch thanks to their recent trip to Scotland - wonderful...