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Date: 20 September 2004 21:09:09
What a day! (again!). Got up to find my lodger's car had been broken into (driver's window smashed and they'd tried to start it, thankfully unsuccessfully). This is the second time this has happened in the last few months (am I evil for admitting I'm slightly relieved it's always been her car and not mine? Probably. But as hers is cute and smart and mine is obviously a knackered old banger I suppose that's why). I'm starting to get fed up of not feeling entirely safe and not knowing what we're going to find in the car park every morning - it really must be time to move somewhere else.
After work I legged it up to Elephant and Castle (one part of London I must admit I really don't feel very safe in - particularly having to negotiate the maze-like subway under the roundabout) for my first Russian lesson. Which I just about survived - the teacher is this rather loud middle-aged woman who seems to go slightly too fast for me, and the alphabet is really quite intimidating, though I think I started to get the hang of it by the end. I was rather embarrassed by my writing though - because the alphabet is so unfamiliar my Russian looks like it's been written by a 4 year old, and I suspect my speech will become fluent a lot quicker than my writing!
When I got home the first thing I saw was another massive spider. Fortunately the handy gadget gizmo (see previous entry) was to hand so I got rid of him (humanely of course) with a minimum of fuss, other than the obligatory swearing, which always makes me feel much braver. My lodger commented - and she's dead right - that she's never known another house with so many huge spiders. I'd understand it if I lived in an old rambling cottage or something, but this place was built in 2001. When I moved in (in 2001 - the first inhabitant) it already had what felt like hundreds of spiders, I don't understand how they had the chance to colonise it so quickly. If it wasn't for the Bug Buster they'd have taken over the place by now.