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I have two days off in a row. This is going to be a rarity over the summer, which is a shame, as I wanted to go and see people a lot this summer. I also sort of want to go home to assure my mother that I am eating three meals a day which contain many food groups, that I am not consisting solely off wine and chocolate, and that I am Coping. I am very good at Coping. She keeps on phoning, which is nice, but she has an unerring knack of phoning at the worst time ever, normally during Hollyoaks. Yesterday I had already seen Hollyoaks, and she managed to phone half way through Galaxy Quest, in which she checked I was eating, showering, and that Katie would be around all summer. I assured her all these things would be happening. Maybe I should try and be mor pathetic and try and bribe some sort of guilt package out of her. I have had a sincere lack of care packages this summer and I used to like getting name-brand food every few months.

Also I need to drop off some stuff and pick up some other stuff, primarily my A-Level notes for the dissertation. So probably heading back to Ormskirk mid-week in about two weeks, I think?

Erm, yes. The point is that I am determined to keep busy and do something useful with my life, or at least my summer. Thus far today I have bought some bread from the shop. Yesterday I did some dissertation reading though and felt ever so virtuous, being in the library essentially by myself. It was an odd experience. I should do some more today as my pile of books to read is alarming and barely scratches the surface of my preperatory reading. It's going to be well into July before I even start wrangling with the Thurloe State Papers (spymasters for the win!) and various newsbooks. Apparently the library has lots of Eikon Basilikes, though, so that's handy. Probably? Am I looking at perception or images?

(Oh, hark at me, pretending that I'm some sort of fancy-schmancy academic. I've scan-read two books and that is IT. I can't even remember the dates of the Civil War at the moment Pathetic.)

Er, yes. The point is I want to do something with my day. All I've done this week is watch a lot of films on the tellybox - Jurassic Park III and Twister amongst other things - and I want to maybe get out of the house and be a bit self-indulgent. I've thought about going to Dundee and doing some shopping, but it's getting late now. Plus petrol is abhorrently expensive at the moment. (£1.12!) I'm good in terms of food and stuff so I don't need to shop for that. I might go to the cinema tonight. I should probably do some more dissertation work.

I will probably sit on the internet all day. These things happen.