been friends with a pen

Today I:

• woke up late. I, very unusually for me, was so tired when my alarm went off that I set a new one. For some reason, I decided to make it five minutes before my first meeting, my team's usual check-in. So yeah, I did not make that.
• got dressed and downstairs eventually, triaged email and Teams messages.
• did my morning chores: open the curtains, empty the dishwasher, make breakfast for me and a pot of tea for the household...
• got halfway through the dishwasher when my work phon rang. Actually rang, not a Teams call. How odd!
• remember as the guy starts talking that I agreed to do an interview but forgot to put it in my calendar
• the interview is with rail industry press rather than my usual audiences of general public or politicians, so I got to drag some of the technical vocabulary out of my brain.
• had a little cry at lunchtime about Alex Pretti
• had two absolutely brutal meetings this afternoon, for a total of three hours: more technical stuff. I have looked at so many diagrams of train stations...and there weren't any breaks in that 2-hour meeting!
• walked Teddy with V, as a nice antidote to all the thinking and trying to decipher engineering diagrams (some of which were labeled by hand).
• made dinner by chopping all the veg in the fridge that needed using up and roasting it (some wrinkly peppers, half a head of rubbery broccoli, a few carrots I didn't know we had, mushrooms that were best before last week...) into a serviceable dinner
• helped D do a Tesco order for tomorrow
• read too much news
• had a shower
• went to bed late and now can't sleep