One can question whether it is such a good idea to log onto the computer at 10 pm when you are trying to have an early night - and this was not a log on to do my blog but to keep up to date with people asking for questionnaires. I have put questionnaires on internet, thanks to IRB Doug who has sat on my IRB proposal so long that the CT participant pool had closed before I could even attempt to print some questionnaires to hand out (after 4 months). Anyway, this internet business is scary. I use a system that saves data for me, so I feel quite a loss of control because i don;t quite understand the system yet - it has raised my blood pressure a number of times today, feel like I have just run half a mile everytime I've looked at the thing. The helpdesk is great: "no we have never had this problem, thank you for reporting it, we will keep an eye on it" or "you must be doing something wrong, this should not happen". "Oh, thanks, that is very useful!"
Have our housewarming tomorrow and I still have not managed to reach my mother to ask her what to prepare in the way of food. Someone asked how/where we are going to fit 40 people. In the living room thinks me, our living room is enormous. A little more thought and I realize our living room seems enormous because a. I have never had my own before b. it is so empty. But ehrm, indeed perhaps it cannot fit that many people. We will solve that tomorrow... Our house is proving very expensive, we always feel so sorry for the people who have to deliver to us on the third floor (e.g., the grocery man this week: 4 crates of beer, 12 bottles of wine, 21 bottles of soft drinks etc.) that we give them big tips - they thank us with an exhausted and sweaty grin!
Attempt to go to bed?