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I got up at twelve today. Twelve. It was a thing of beauty, actually taking the time to wake up gradually without Mortal Fear of my alarm. Which still went off at twelve because I usually feel guilty sleeping past that but today, no guilt as I hit Snooze. Of course that was helped by not going to bed until half five and oh look, I've turned into exactly what I was like last year. On the plus side I wrote more fic in one shot last night than I have in... well, forever it feels like. If I can do it again tonight there will be cookies for the muses but first I need breakfast. Lunch. Some weird combination of the two maybe.

Workmen have put up scaffolding along the *entire* length of the building across from me. This is woeful news for two reasons. Firstly, selfishly, it completely ruins my view. Secondly, it means they'll be doing the same to our building next week. They only *built* these damn things two years ago, their excuse of 'needing to fix the windows' is really not holding any weight. I think they have excess money from overcharging us for accomodation and feel like paying workmen to sit around and do nothing, because that's what they do. It's taken them a morning to put up all that scaffolding and it'll now sit there for a few days until they feel like coming back to use it. And then it'll sit there a few more days before they can be bothered to come back and take it down. They should just *leave* it there, it'd save them time and effort with all the times they've put damn scaffolding up on that building since last year. Sigh. I don't get how something can break in the space of two years. The windows in our house don't need 'fixing' every two years; why should these? It's... inexplicable.

It does however mean I can sit and watch workmen trying to not-fall-off scaffolding if I get bored though. Last year when R's room was on the same side of the corridor as mine, she'd call me on the internal phone and we'd waste a few hours doing a running commentary on what crazy things they were doing *now*. Because we are students and we can fill hours with absolutely nothing, if we have to.

Also during my sleepy lie-in this morning, I realised I'd never thanked

hill2k for his present last week. *hugs* I got it just when I was getting a little stressed and needed cheering up and it was perfect. Re. the day in Manchester, I have Wednesdays and Fridays off so I could do one of those in the next couple of weeks, probably? Weekends are a pain with Lancaster trains. If not, I don't have all that much to do after the third week of next term, so could do it anytime then. We'll find sometime.

This time tomorrow, will (hopefully) be halfway home. >_< Got so much to do this afternoon if I'm even going to be remotely ready, so should go be productive for a while now.

Happy that Andy won and that it wasn't a complete walk-over match. It was looking close right up until the last tiebreak. It was pretty much the match I would've asked for, if I could've dictated how it was going turn out. Weird to have Andy actually going along with my plans . I could get used to it.