September Already?

Bit of a bad sign really.....I opened the latest publication of the Philological Society ('The Semantic Predecessors of Need in the History of English c.750-1710') and went "Tsk!" and decided that I couldn't be bothered to read it. Oh dear! My brain seems to have atrophied significantly over the summer break: I've noticed an aversion to anything academic that I really need to overcome, especially since I'm moving to full time doctoral studies at the start of October and my supervisory meeting is in less than two weeks time. Deep breath: try not to look at the pile of unread books in every corner of the room, the PDFs crowding the desktop of the computer, the notes that make scant sense after four weeks up on blocks! The summer holiday was great - just what was needed - but now I must get back down to work again, and that means getting back into a routine. Come Monday - this Monday coming - everything should be back to 'normal' (whatever that is!): children back at school, daughter #2 married, Melvyn Bragg back on Radio 4 (oh no....that's Thursday) as well as Paxman sneering away on University Challenge (yeah - I'd sneer if I had the answers in front of me). All will be right with the world and I shall turn to the appropriate page in my diary and smooth it down before jotting down a quick plan of action. I've got a text book on reading German to have a serious look at before I start on the course in late October, plus a number of things that need a good read-through to re-orientate myself thesis-wise. Need to have a look at iReaders (or whatever) too: ink cartridges are too expensive to keep printing off material where only the smallest bit is relevant, plus once PDFs are consigned to the Box of Darkness, I forget what I've got and where it is! The academic year stretches before me......I feel about twelve years old!