"Hurricane, Force 12"

You don't hear that every day on the shipping forecast. Not quite so bad down here - but not exactly a spring morning.

Had a shit day yesterday. My inability to cope with petty paper pushing, small minded stupidity and general lack of manners had me kicking off at work and losing my temper. Put it down to bad attitude or just generally feeble mental health, but sometimes I should be shoved in a padded room and left for a couple of days. By the time I got home I was in a pretty poor mood so I went to bed early with Conan Doyle. I did drop in on  the retrospective at FiSH galley but it was quite early and I didn't want to hang about - only a handful of people there so I downed a single glass of wine, said a few 'hellos' and came home to pasta.

Really behind with work, really stressed at college and generally at a low ebb. Caught about 5 mins of Emmerdale while I was checking my emails and found myself needing the Valium.

Have not even read the papers today - they are so grim at the moment, there is no point. I'm supposed to be going out tonight after work but I really don't fancy it. I need to work all weekend and the next 3 weeks are really busy for me, actually - the next 3 months are pretty full on. Unfortunatly - because I'm partly paid by salary now - it's not a high earning period - being almost impossible to pack in any real freelance work. The next chance I get to scoop up any real money is over the Easter break or the summer.... both the two periods of the calendar in my industry when there is nothing about.

The highlight of my weekend shall be.......( drumroll ) paying my TV licence.