It rained! (I thought I'd start with the good news first.) Yes, finally the thundery downpours reached my little corner of the country and whilst I was little disappointed at the limited amount of flashy lightnings, it was still fun enough to run about in. Thankfully the rains have also ushered in a somewhat cooler and fresher atmosphere too which is most welcome. Really don't think I could have lasted much more warm. Anyways, the day of the rains, Monday, I did scamper over for a visit to parents who currently have Pam, my mad step-aunt, which made for an interesting experience. Such a shame I couldn't stay though! Oh well. Heh.

My other good news is that I have finally managed to get my overdue university assignment finished and submitted. I don't particularly think it's the very best of essays though and I'm not expected the greatest of marks but after everything I'm really just glad it's finished. Really though, I think even without all the events with my Dad it would have been a difficult essay. Partly since the subject wasn't one I was particularly familiar with and also, what with my tendency toward, umm, wordiness, in my writings squishing all I wanted to say about a whole novel and another short story into the concise style required for a 1,500 word essay is no easy task. Still I managed to stitch something together in the end that vaguely resembled an essay and made certain noises towards addressing the subject. So whilst I'm not expecting great things from this one it is now done and after all the fun of past weeks methinks I'm now more or less back on track with things.

Unfortunately though, things did go downhill a bit after I had finished my essay last night. Having pressed the save button for the last time I thought I would reward myself by stepping out into the clear night air and indulging in a cigarette. However, in deference to my just displayed levels of intelligence and wit I cleverly managed to forget to take my keys with me. I could have sworn they had been in my pocket but I was sadly mistaken. This would be pride coming before a rather stupid fall perhaps. So as it was a quick, relaxing cigarette after my intellectual labours became a six hour period of wandering about the deserted nighttime streets, getting really particularly cold in my t-shirt. I stepped out at 2am and it was not until 8am that someone else came along that could let me back in! Especially annoying too that all that time, my lights and laptop remained switched on drinking up expensive electricities to utterly no purpose! Smrrs. Something of a humbling experience but still, at least I can laugh at my idiocy. Heh, I'd be drowning in my tears otherwise!

Anyways, after being let back into the warm at 8am I then had to scamper off for an appointment at the jobcentre at 9. Fun! I can't say I was in particularly great shape to add much of my own voice to proceedings but in some possibly intriguing news I may yet get another interesting work placement thing soon. Maybe. It's a wholly new scheme this one apparently, with new contractors, so no one can tell me how it might work out. I am the employment guinea pig apparently. *makes squeaking noises* Still, hopefully I may sometime in the near future get a fun new thing to play at being for a while. Anywho, this afternoon I spent at the shop but after my little ordeal over the night I spent most of that on a zombiefied, spaced auto-pilot. Oh we do though have a fresh new volunteer called Jason who seems nice as far as I could tell through my brain fuzz so I may have myself a new real fleshy friend to share my quietness with. Which would be good.

Oh yes, and one other curious thing as I was shambling about town this evening, I came across a kitty that was almost the absolute spitting image or my kitty Ozymandias! Black, lacking a tail and apparently feral (collar-less and un-neutered) as the Ozbeast was before we adopted him. This kitty even seemed to have a similar temperament, happy to be stroked and paid attention to. I'm casually wondering if they might somehow be related. On the other hand though this kitty seemed entirely tailless, rather than stumpy as Oz be and whilst I'm totally up on how the genetics work out for cat tails my suspicion is that they would come out one or the other, rather than being born with just a bit of a tail. Much too tired to be researching such stuffs now though. Still, I doubt really whether they are littermates, but the similarities were striking! Hee, do cats have doppelgangers like us humans are supposed to?!

Anyways, that's pretty much the news. Bong! Or at least as much as I can bring to mind to type. I am now pretty much exhausted but the good news is I should now be more or less caught up and have everything back to where it should be. Tomorrow then I have nothing at all I specifically need to do so I can afford myself some much needed rest, heh, so long as the world will be good enough to allow. I hopes that everyone else be good and well in the meantime. The next news update will be at some point in the future. You can entertain yourself with your favourite 'The Day Today' headlines or somesuch in the meantime if you like... Branson's clockwork dog crosses ocean floor... Well, anyways, hopes all is good.