Living without a diary.
There's a part of me that wants to scream in anguish as this really is one of my nightmares come true. There's another part of me that just wants to say 'stuff it' and enjoy no longer living under its tyranny.

I'm probably ok this week as, for the rest of my team's benefit, I transfer the week's events across to the electronic thing that resides with our email and can be accessed by the Floor Manager, assistants and science librarian etc. But as from next week I shall be into uncharted territory with meetings, training, events and so on that I won't know for sure are happening. But all of those I can probably survive. Meetings in the library I can be called for, training I should have email notifications of my bookings etc. Events I may well be able to miss without too much loss. But the two things that are much harder to 'lose' are the data the diary contains - from a book reading record which isn't the end of the world, to lectures that academics have arranged for me to give and which I may not have another note of.

And why don't I do this all electronically with my Palm? Well I used to at TheOldPlace and it worked a charm. Sync with the PC at least once a day and everything's backed up. But I've also whinged here before about the fact that thanks to the IT set up here I've not been able to ever get that working here. So have been forced to resort to paper again. I always knew I'd eventually come unstuck!