ROW80 Round 4 - 9th Update

Though I've worked almost every day, the last week has been fairly good for me in terms of general productivity (even though I've dropped off the ROW80 radar a bit; don't tell Judgemental Dog or he'll nip me). Earlier in the week I wrote almost another whole chapter for my novel, and though I had to get rid of a few hundred words of stuff I already had, at least it feels like I'm finally moving forward with it.

Now that our new store is open, I'm doing customer service instead of nightfill, which means I'm not lifting and carrying heavy stuff anymore. This certainly seems to be making a difference to my knee, which, though it's still a bit dodgy and achey, seems to be getting better more quickly than it was.

I've been continuing with workshopping my writing group's submissions, and with revising my thesis. Speaking of which, I just got my results for my Honours year: High Distinction for my thesis, and High Distinctions for all of my units, giving me a HD/H1 for Honours overall. This means that if I want to do my PhD in the future, I can :D And I'm also hoping it will give me a bit of an edge when applying for jobs. To celebrate, I decided to crack open the big tub of Connoisseur Chocolate Obsession ice cream that's been sitting in the freezer for nearly a month.

This is basically me right now:

Also, a big bunch of art supplies (mainly watercolour paints) I ordered a while ago arrived this week, and though I haven't really painted anything serious with them yet, I've been having fun experimenting (in case you didn't already know, I'm a bit of an art supplies addict, with several desk drawers full of coloured pencils, paints, pastels and other assorted crap). Here are my new goodies:

(the black tubes were freebies; glad I didn't pay for them because the paint they contain smells utterly feral)

So I'm in a pretty awesome mood at the moment. Basically, imagine me doing a happy dance like this dog:

In light of his mistress's good mood, Judgemental Dog is being a bit more lenient this week:

See how other ROW80ers are going here.