Crunch

As the saying goes, it never rains but it pours. Of course, the saying is an enormous lie, since we very rarely get torrential rain in Hull. However, it's been rather cold the past few days, which is not good when you hear about your gas and electricity bills going up 22%. Probably why last night I had a dream that I went into one of my housemate's rooms and discovered that he had a gas fire all to himself. Hmm. Warmth. That would be good.

But it won't happen today. Or anytime this week. The bad news that the weather is going to get colder was met with disappointment from all in the house, including my friend whose bedroom is like a fridge no matter whether the heating is on or off. I'm hoping this will be the last phase of evil weather we get before the spring starts setting in. Oh, for a day where the temperature goes above 10°Cs.

Anyway... the scale of my work for the next few weeks has just hit me. In under three weeks time I have a 4,000 word research project to hand in, plus two 2,500 word essays. And the week later I have a 3,000 word essay to do. I've done some work on the research project, but I discovered yesterday that what I'd done was not quite right, because I should have been entering the raw data into my database, instead of just calculating the end results. Bah.

All this has come at a time when I was rather wanting to go into some local primary schools and see if I could help out. Or at the least, just see what it was like for a day. But I now have officially zero free time. There is now no time whatsoever for me to do the theory test I kept pretending to myself I was going to book. I really do tell some serious lies to my brain...

However, I did buy some rusks last night. Rusks are good. I used to steal the rusks off my brothers and sister when they were babies. There really should be adult versions of these wonderful creations.

And, of course, there is always time for Deal or No Deal...