Paper

In the last few weeks alone, never mind the whole term, several trees must have passed through my printer. At this time, we are frantically preparing to hand in portfolios of our work for the term. Fierce debate rages in the library over whether we need two copies of everything, or just one; do we include a bibliography or not?; should we fill in a separate Critical Rationale for each piece, or use one for for all pieces? My head hurts.
I'm also now very stressed as in the flush of getting things done in advance, and printing a lot of stuff out already, I realise that I'm not happy with everything, some pieces have page numbers, others don't, and I've made a dreadful mistake in the title of some pieces. So I will have to start all over again. More paper.
So I've just wasted a few minutes taking an IQ test on facebook, which gave me a good result at least. Definitely felt the pressure of time ticking though, it's been a while since I've done a timed test. But teaching verbal reasoning as I do now and again gave me a distinct advantage I feel. I have a certain arrogance and insecurity about IQ test though, and in general, I hate to fail!
It's been a busy weekend, but a good one. Got work done, and ticked a couple more things off my 'to do' list. I also did some more baking with one of my housemates and we had a very comfortable afternoon buying ingredients and then making biscuits. I made cherry biscuits, recipe as follows: 40z butter / margarine; a tablespoon of syrup; 20z chopped glace cherries; 60z self-raising flour; 4oz soft brown sugar. Cream the butter and sugar, then add the syrup; mix in half the flour, add the cherries, then mix in the rest of the flour. You should have a smooth dough. Shape into 12 balls and place on a lined baking tray. Gas Mark 4 for approximately 12 minutes. Our gas cooker is rather slow, so we turned it up to mark 6. Electric oven will be about 15 - 180 Celsius. It makes a lovely chewy biscuit, perfect for dunking. There's nothing better on a winter evening. Ah well, back to the paper and the felling of trees.