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Date: 29 March 2006 15:00:13
BT having completed their 'routine maintenance works' with 30 minutes minus connection stretching to 24! Plus all day Sunday, as last. Methinks they must be in league with the Keep Sunday Special Campaign. Still, looking on the bright side, little Miff managed to catch up on his coursework, whilst Mr M and self finished watching Schindler's List. I think I'm just about getting over that one, now...just.
With Easter and Uni interview time approaching, I've been given strict instructions by Ms Miff to intercept the postman (and the dog) each day, and transmit any info to her straightaway. As yet, no interviews, although a slightly confusing letter re course codes etc arrived this morning. The idea being, I gather, that if she either fails to secure an interview with institution Number One, or is rejected after, she'll then have around a month (and thus time to improve her portfolio) before being contacted by Number Two, and ditto the third time. If, and tbh I don't think this'll happen, no go with any of them, and she ends up in clearing, she may well reconsider her pathway altogether; maybe going for English or similar. Or even reapplying next year. By which time, her brother will be starting to make moves along the same pathway. I don't know - life seems so complicated. nowadays.
You'll no doubt be shocked to learn that I'm celebrating midweek and the reconnection of our internet by munching my way through the giant bars of chocolate that the beloved gave me for Mothering Sunday. (little Miff's pressie of Thorntons were scoffed within 24 hours). Well, how can I resist the temptation? When you've Valentines day, Mothering Sunday AND your birthday all falling within Lent, what's a girl to do?
Posted a couple of parcels for Ms Miff earlier. In a fit of enthusiasm, and in an effort to clear some space in her room here for when she quits her flat, she put 47 of her old books on to Amazon Marketplace last weekend. Of course this coincided with the maintenance work, and so she notified me of the transactions (2 sold at once) so that I could sort it all out here. No one can say it's not an eclectic collection. Where else would you get Buffy the Vampire Slayer books mixing with Patricia St John classics and the like? Still at least she has her own account now. Before whilst she was still using mine, I used to get the most peculiar suggestions from Amazon : 'Hello, Mrs X - today we recommend Rowan William's 'Silence and Honeycakes,' Thomas Merton's 'Deep Seeds of Contemplation,' Buffy, the sequel to the sequel to the sequel, Miffy retreats to the Dark Side, Clanging Dustbins down a mineshaft, The Typography of Weird Japanese anime thingies and 'Placebo' Je T'aime (even more laid back classics).'
Right. Must hop off down to the station and buy some tickets for Friday. Yes, Friday. Customer service round here tends to be somewhat erratic and this may be the only chance I have to buy them. And no, Smudgie, I'm not going to arrive for the Wightmeet a week early; don't worry!