You know it’s been a quiet day when the only conversation you’ve had is with a checkout girl over the merits of a Homebase card. Yes friends, my housemates have all left me, which as I suspected has helped me to work, but it has also been mighty boring, going to bed early, flicking through the same 5 channels (I haven’t got the digital working… yet), I even turned to drink at one point, which certainly helped last night fly by.

It’s also a bit worrying when you’re living on your own in a relatively new place, since with every noise you expect that you’re about to be robbed, and we had a bit of thunder and lightning last night which made things slightly more dramatic.

Oh, and I set off the fire alarm whilst stir-frying some steak. That bad boy is L-O-U-D.

I work terms I found 1 excellent book, 2 not so helpful, and 1 that I haven’t read yet. I am currently back in the library so another audacious raid on the library’s resources will soon be mounted.

Oh, I noticed that my room has a fireplace (previously hidden by my artwork, well, not my artwork, but I do certainly own it) and since I obviously can’t start a fire in my room I’ve put some orange pebble lights (available from Habitat, maybe) under it creating the illusion of fire and warmth. I’d be a hopeless romantic if only I had a girlfriend.