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I have the internet back, after running to the library and flailing and the woman at IT services rolling her eyes and asking if I ran Windows 2000 or XP with ZoneAlarm. When I nodded, she sighed rather a lot and swore about 'that bloody update'.

So, there's that fixed. Actually, I'm really enjoying being by myself. The house is clean and sparkly to exactly my standards - not above, not below. My washing is gently drying downstairs and my underwear is proudly splayed for all to see. I had a bath last night with the door open. The loo is always free. Also I can watch what I want to on the telly, but given we all watch the same stuff and understand the sanctity of Hollyoaks Hour (oh, Max) this isn't really a change.

On the flipside, mind, I started talking to the radio this morning so clearly other humans in the vicinity is a good idea.

It has given me a bit of a taste for what life post-university might be like; if I can afford it, I think I'd like to live by myself and have a small flat decorated as I like it. If you can get rents like that, of course; the house here, though, is just filled with the landlady's stuff, but all I really want is the bare sticks of furniture so I can work the rest out myself. Still, that's a whole year off, so I can worry about that much later on. I have no idea what I'll even be doing in a year, after all.

Today is my day off, and I'm off to go and get my eyebrows waxed - never done it before but have decided it's time I suck it up and get someone to professionally shape them for me - and then I'm going to come home and have a a good long run at the dissertation. I am probably the only person who That Time Of The Month equals incredibly productivity; I don't enjoy it, but I do have a mad urge to nest and as such I do stuff like cook, clean, make lists and get everything on it done. I also eat a lot of chocolate, but hey ho.

I'm not sure when people are coming back, but I think it's tomorrow? It'll be quite nice to have human contact past "Hi! How are you today? Can I help you with anything?"

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You know, I have been pierced seventeen times in various places across my body. Not all of them are current, etc, etc, but that is a lot of needles through one body. I have a tattoo is what is traditionally a very painful area. I go through a period every month. I have suffered from all sorts of interesting and painful diseases and broken bones and bruises and burns.

But oh dear Christ never ever ever allow me to even contemplate getting my eyebrows waxed again. Now, admittingly they look quite nice and add something resembling definition to my face, but from now on it's just me and tweezers against the world. That hurts less and involves a lot less in the way of swelling and redness AND SCARY WOMEN POURING HOT WAX ON MY FACE.

How on this earth people get a Brazilian is beyond me. THERE ARE PLACES HOT WAX AND WOMEN WITH SCARY EXPRESSIONS SHOULD NOT GO, PEOPLE.

In other news, please to be starting watching Last Choir Standing as The Alleycats - of my very own university - are through to the last fifteen and they're proper ace. I would imagine. On the telly is the only way I have heard them sing.

There are people padding around the house again. It's quite nice to have other humans around the place even if they do seem to be spending and inordinate amount of time in the bathroom together.