h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Sometimes I excel at peeling oranges badly. Clumsily my nails dig into the volatile pith and a spray of orange juice shoots out like a joke water pistol. It's the downside of giving up nail-biting, no doubt.

Feel a bit exposed today, a bit unprotected from the world. Delicate, you could put it. For some reason I was really down on the way to work... for no apparent reason. Feeling very tired lately, not sure whether it's too much junk food, or a bug, or worrying about everything (as usual), or just trying to do too much at work and home. Or perhaps it's the lull of concrete tasks to do at work, leading me to spend the day in a stuffy office with little natural light and too much heat, trying to find things to do. It's SO quiet at work lately.

I'm looking forward to my night in Llandudno tomorrow... I really miss the sea. In fact, the last time I saw it was in Barry Island with Diane and James, and THAT was a while ago now! The sea represents freedom to me - openness, possibility, opportunity. It reminds me that we live on an island, which I like... Reading Jeremy Paxman's "The English" lately, and it hammers home how much that fact has shaped English character and history. Ooh... commuting has made me soooo bookish, with all that spare time to read!