"Knackered" is a British expression (an adjective) meaning tired and exhausted.
This is how one is when one spends the day preparing for a long-distance trip for the sort-of-annual "conference" for the Daedalus Notes moderators. So much to do, in fact, that one blogger forgot to blog today. I love British expressions like these, not just because I'm an unabashed Anglophile, but because they sound right... just like those British nonsense words codswallop and tommyrot, chuffed (meaning very excited), whinge (to whine - was it any coincidence that Harry Potter's muggle relatives the Dursley's lived in Little Whingeing?), swot (to "cram" for a test) and twee (meaning quaint). In this case, knackered is the best way to describe my current physical state: wiped out, shutting down, ready for BED!
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