Updates

• I never thought that I was a Lost fan, until the boy started making me watch Season 6 with him. Don’t get me wrong, I have always been a devout Matthew Fox fan because, let’s face it, who isn’t? However, we are now episodes away from the end and the solution of the series, and I realise I’m into it. I now have to work back through the annals of time to figure out what exactly is going on. Very frustrating. If you’ve never watched it though, start at season 1 and I promise you’ll be hooked. That said, it’s just about time to find out WHAT THE ISLAND IS (!!!) If I hadn’t started watching backwards, I would never have had the patience to keep following.

• Writing has begun on my thesis. Not complex, nuanced and intelligent writing, but pages filled with words nevertheless. The problem is that I keep being distracted by just about everything. Plus I am now writing a fantasy series so my thought wander in that direction most of the time. You may also note how I said ‘writing has begun’. Well actually, I have begun writing, but I’m so used to writing in the academic 3rd person that apparently I am no longer able to perform any tasks around my thesis, rather my chapters, headings and arguments do all the work. As long as they don’t get all the credit, and on graduation day MY name is called, and not Chapter 6 and Hypothesis 4.



• I have been on a three month experiment to try and lose weight/live healthy/look good naked and the end of May signifies measurement time. I am thus dreading the day because it turns out that if you want an experiment to succeed, you actually have to put the time and effort in and ensure stable conditions. *Sigh* I mean I did the running and the gym and stuff, but the eating plan is just not working for me. Plus every time I open a book or pamphlet about losing weight, the first thing they tell you to do is give up alcohol, dairy and refined foods. Duh. I know that. I am looking for an ALTERNATIVE to that! Apparently there really is only one way.

• In relation to the above point, I am also trying to cut down on alcohol containing carbs. I went for a burger the other night and instead of a foaming pint or a glass of red wine, I had vodka and water. The boy said he had never seen someone so sad in his life. The point is that if I had to choose between red wine and well, just about anything, everything else would have to make a REALLY convincing case before it would even vaguely please the court.



• My scrabble score is on a steady decline. I was seriously impressed with an 84 for ‘FOOTBATH’, which should just show you how unimpressive the vocabulary of the rest of the game is.



• I officially hate photocopying. Especially at work, where I have to stand in a scary, dingy room without sun or warmth and the photocopier works as fast as a pregnant woman in a field (no offence to pregnant women – but you are not the field’s fastest workers).
But check this woman!

• I had a terrifying nightmare last night about a colleague. He’s the tall, dark one who should-be-hot-but-isn’t (this is an oft-occurring phenomenon whereby people give the illusion that they should be attractive, but when you get down to it all, they really aren’t. Patrick Dempsey is my celebrity example). Anyway, he tried to hack me to death at Aandklas every time I went to quiz. I hope this isn’t some kind of a sign, since it’s quiz tonight and we really need to win (and I need to not die).



Wish me luck (with the thesis, scrabble, dingy photocopy room, quiz and surviving the homicidal attack!)