I have a new friend

(What do you mean, it’s Thursday already? So I’m keeping up my long tradition of never updating my diary on time…) Underneath my desk there are now four boxes: Box 1: Registered books, all labelled and ready for release. Box 2: Books still waiting to be registered (I needed a MUCH longer weekend!) Box 3:…

Did I say this was the week for bookrings? Another one arrived today: Choke by Chuck Palahniuk (this is completely unrelated to the Invisible Monsters bookring that arrived last week – it’s pure coincidence that two Palahniuk books turned up so close together). MrPloppy had to go into town today for an appointment with his…

Fort Mason Youth Hostel, San Francisco. This has been a really long day! I managed to get a couple of hours’ sleep on the plane, but I never sleep well in vehicles at the best of times, and it was a pretty bumpy trip. It seemed like every time I started to drift off we’d…

I spent the afternoon at an Afghani birthday party. It was my ESOL student’s daughter’s 18th birthday, and at our last lesson she’d invited me to come. I had no idea what to expect, except that the conversation would all be in Farsi so I wouldn’t have a clue what was going on all afternoon,…

Well I survived having to work on my birthday, and I survived two days of being stuck on a not-very-interesting training course, and it’s finally the weekend. And my boss said that seeing as I missed out on having a holiday on Thursday and Friday, I can take Monday off instead. So at least I…