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 I have a new place to live! And it's extortionately expensive, as is everything else on the rental market round here at the moment, so I'm going to have to put some pretty solid hours in at Job #2 to cover the rent, which will hopefully not be a problem although Job #2 is a zero-hours contract and the flexibility works both ways in terms of how much work I get and how much work there is, but my boss is snowed under so here's hoping, and oh yeah council tax and stuff -  but oh, friendslist, you should see this place. A gas cooker! A sofa in the kitchen! A double bed! A view, which is even better than the Best View In The World I had at the old place! There will be pictures, I promise you.

For now, I'm still camped out at my friend Dr K's, home of a huge widescreen TV and the World's Most Comfortable Sofa. Also, of a flatmate who says things like "You look knackered. Sit down and watch CSI, and I'll make you some pasta." Not that I needed the encouragement, you understand. My supervisor wants me to work work work on those publications, so I have an article to polish up, and a book proposal to write (for a monograph), and another book proposal to write (for a new edition of a long-out-of-print novel), and a bunch of lectures to write and classes to plan and Milton to read, but do you know how long it's been since I got to curl up on a sofa and watch CSI?

(Not that I'm doing that now. Now I'm at work, where I have been for the past eleven hours. But soon! Soon!)