Yesterday at work I went to a training course in time management.

I had originally been booked to go on this in 2001, but had missed it! (This is really true. In my defence, my entire group had moved office buildings that very day and things genuinely were hectic; but even so, I forgot to go to a time management course.)

This time round, they set me homework to do before the course (preparing a detailed log of one day in my job, so that I could analyse it in particular ways during the course). I had a vague feeling that anyone who turned up having actually done the homework would be told to go away because they clearly didn't need to be there :-) But in fact what happened was that the course instructor said there was always one person who hadn't done the homework, and then he asked if everyone had – and it turned out that there was precisely one person who hadn't done it. I wonder how often that joke doesn't work for him.

It was odd how much the start of the course felt like an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. Every time someone I knew walked in, it was as if I was hearing them say ‘Hello, my name's foo and I'm hopelessly disorganised’. Which, of course, I'd said as well by being there myself. (Although I'm uncertain of whether I'm still as disorganised now as I was five years ago when I originally booked myself on the course; I think I've improved a lot on my own since then.)

People on training courses get lunch provided; I had told them I was coeliac but wasn't sure whether they'd manage to do anything useful. As it turned out they provided me a salady sort of lunch which had no gluten in, but also had no carbohydrates, so I was rather hungry for the rest of the day. If I have another training course I might write something pointed in the dietary-requirements box (‘I have an intolerance of gluten but I still need some carbs’).

This morning I'm back at my own desk and have just started up Evolution, and it immediately put up the reminder window it didn't get a chance to show me yesterday (because I didn't log in), telling me that I should have been at a time management course yesterday. For some reason I find this wildly amusing.