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"List 15 books that will always stick with you. And you're not allowed to agonize about it."

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Devices and Desires by P.D. James
Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
Howards End by E.M. Forster
The Winters Tale by William Shakespeare
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Nemesis by Agatha Christie
The Theban Mysteries by Amanda Cross
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl
Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake

I feel a bit bad for whining - there's plenty of people much much worse off than me - but I REALLY don't want to go into work tomorrow. My skin's reacted to a moisturiser that I was (foolishly) using last week, and I can't get rid of the blotches. I'm sure they'll subside soon, and I'm not quite at the "bag over my head" stage, but I don't look good. However, as I worked from home on Friday, staying at home tomorrow really isn't an option. Sigh.

I had some amazing news yesterday - some of the loan I made through Kiva has been repaid.
I didn't think it wouldn't be, but still, it's really restored my faith in the goodness of people, and not to sound too cheesy, made me feel very grateful for what I have. It feels great to be able to help someone without it just being a handout.

In a complete change of subject, unfortunately I think my very unwelcome visitors are back - I really don't mind rodents, but in their proper place (outside) rather than in my kitchen cupboards. I'm hoping that the droppings I found were ones I missed when I cleaned everything after Pest Control came, but I'm not holding my breath. Ick. Time to get the sanitising spray out again.

I didn't want to hope too much, but wow, I'm so happy today!!!

How can it be Sunday evening already? Granted, I've not done much, except for mammouth amounts of cleaning today (I tend to operate on an "embarrassment factor" system when it comes to cleaning, as in "how embarrassed would I be at the state of the flat if someone dropped round?) but I've still got to make my lunch for tomorrow and cook tea.

At least I'm off next Friday (will need it as I'll be up all Thursday night for episode 9x10). I'm getting ridiculously nervous about it (the episode) though. I'm going to be sad when it's over, but in some ways it'll just be good to know what happens - I can go back to having a life ;-)

The one thing I hope they don't do (apart from having Grissom and Sara not end up together, of course) is have a Frasier-type ending, where we just see Grissom going off, possibly to meet Sara. I'm sure they won't do that. They'd better not do that.

Sigh, back to watching GSR clips...

I love this - a clip that makes Bill O'Reilly look cuddly and sympathetic (but then I think anyone would look good next to the scary black hole that is Ann Coulter...

I've just watched the Daily Show (we get it a day late in the UK) and saw this:




I can't quite believe it's not a Daily Show spoof - did this really air on CNN as a serious feature, or do they have a comedy hour? I thought CNN was meant to be relatively serious, and while I guess there needs to be some light and shade, this piece is so light it floats away.

I've also got to deal with a slightly delicate situation. I met a guy on New Year's Eve, we danced, had fun but that was it, and I'm not interested in him at all (he was the evangelical vegan who irritated me). He's now sent me a Facebook friend request. I could ignore it, but he's a member of the veggie group I've joined (and want to stay in) so it could make things difficult. I'm trying to think of a firm yet nice way of making it clear I'm not interested without lying and saying I've already got a boyfriend. Any ideas welcome!

Sigh, I've just had a really long and tiring day on top of virtually no sleep last night - courtesy of my neighbours' dog that barked practically every hour (not on the hour, that would be too freaky) but at midnight, 1.30am, 3am and 4am, and topped things off with a weird scrabbling sound on the other side of the wall at 5am (I'm in a ground floor flat, and my bedroom wall is their sitting room). My neighbours aren't pleasant; as I'm typing this they're having a very loud row, so talking to them about it isn't really an option. I have thought about going with a "I'm concerned that your dog might not be OK, and your house is so big you might not have heard it bark), but in a way I don't want their (considerable) rage turned on me. However, this can't go on. It's been like this since I moved in at the end of October, and it's starting to affect my work. I do have earplugs, but they're the foam kind and I find they hurt my ears (plus I have an irrational fear they're going to burrow inside my ear canal and burst an ear drum).

My council has a service where you can register a complaint about noise and then they investigate, but when I rang them today they were busy. I'm definitely going to ring back tomorrow, though, as I think I'll feel better once I've started to do something about it.

The one good thing is that their house is for sale, so they might be moving soon. However, in the current climate, and given the price their house is on the market for, I'm not that optimistic.

If anyone has experience in dealing with this sort of thing, I'd be really interested to hear about it - all help gratefully received!