Positive things for Friday

crashed out last night and forgot

1. Sitting in the pub at lunchtime with colleagues discussing the etymology of the word 'malaria', whether the physics taught in secondary schools is 4 centuries out of date, and how it feels to have grown up with a computer, and an 'internet' connection, in the house. (One colleague is 21.)

2. Pumpkin and pine-nut ravioli from Waitrose.

3. Going to bed before 10pm because I wanted to.

positive things for Saturday

1. Hazy sunshine, snowdrops and squabbling crows on the way to the sorting office: so that's what mornings are like when I'm not on the train!

2. Lying on the bed, staring out at the evening sky through a sash window. (This strongly reminds me of childhood, though it's obviously not the same window. But looking west at a winter sunset, and the way the clouds fade from gold to dark grey, and billow across the bright ruler of a contrail ...)

3. An unexpected evening in, and nothing I have to do.

Am trying hard to look on the bright side, actually: was supposed to be going to the theatre tonight, and planned an early-start, efficient day of getting things done (having been ill last Saturday, and due to be away next Saturday, this was my sole opportunity for sorting-office, bank, post office etc); ticked nearly everything off the list, but then discovered that the play started 30 mins earlier than I'd thought, and I had 15 mins -- rather than 45 -- to eat, bathe, and get ready. Sometimes London feels very far away ... and this is a weekend without major engineering work, though the journey was complicated by Thameslink trains only running to London Bridge.

Mind you, I can't deny I'm relishing the novelty of wondering what to do! (Read book? Write book? Watch film? Veg out on sofa with cats and CDs? the BSFA proofreading?

Johari windows

The site is overloaded and thus unavailable, so I can't tell people what I think of them. Some of you may be grateful <g>

I'm intrigued, though. Why do you want to know what people think of you? My initial reaction was more or less Dracula-confronted-with-garlic. (Memo to self: put the pasta sauce on.) I may give it a go, if the site returns, because it's often interesting to confront things that provoke that sort of response. But generally: ewww.