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Slowly coming to the end of the cold from hell - nearly two weeks of feeling shit. Thank you depressed immune system :/ The biggest side effect (after snot and coughing) has been the ensuing lack of sleep, which is probably why I've been crashed out most of the weekend.

Doesn't stop me beating myself up for my lack of productivity. I think I'm just nuts, to be honest.

Yesterday, I went to Glastonbury with [personal profile] ninneviane, [profile] treborjones and [livejournal.com profile] 0ct0pus. I had the best day ever, and even struggled up to the top of the tor. Not bad :)

Struggled up to Stroud on Saturday to do crappy family stuff. It was the feckin' horse trials at Badminton, so took me about an hour each way. I counted 286 landrovers coming the opposite way in a 10-mile stretch of A46. I also bought some nappies and petted a tiny baby sheep. Memmis Bach! As [livejournal.com profile] 0ct0pus rightly pointed out, if I'm being rational, I do do a fair amount of stuff for someone who's dropping a sprog next month.

My mum's newest trick is to refuse to do anything constructive that she previously agreed to, and when challenged she points to me and says she only ever agreed because "she made me". Which is fairly embarrassing in a high street bank on a busy Saturday morning. But ho-hum - just got to get her signature and a letter from the DHS and she'll have her very own independent life.

Which she doesn't want.

Three more days of work to go until I can leave. Phew. All I have to do now is teach my replacement (who never smiles) how to do my job (even though she's never done any programming) while smiling sweetly at the fact she's already being paid about 5k a year more than me. Oh well. 1 week of work, followed by 4 weeks of playing Final Fantasy, then I'll be a mum.

I hereby solemnly swear that I will never go back to working full-time at that place, even when the baby's old enough to go to school.
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Had a great weekend in Bruxelles, minus one or two low points. Spent a night in the Hilton with [livejournal.com profile] 0ct0pus on Friday, which was fun. Noticed I was starting to brew up something unpleasant in the head-cold line, and wondered whether a weekend in Europe was the bext plan. Unfortunately, was pretty much committed at that point, so went to bed and got up at 5 the next morning. Eek.

Double eek, really, as poor old [livejournal.com profile] 0ct0pus lost his wallet somewhere between our cab and the Eurostar check-in. As this was all of 100 yards, and I was right behind him all the way, I think it must have been swiped. But as you can imagine, cancelling all your credit cards at 6am just before you go abroad isn't the best start to the day.

The Eurostar is actually damn cool. Like a trip to Manchester, except further and better and not smelling of pee.

Had a nap when we got to D's lovely aunt's palatial flat. Then walked in the park, ate lovely vietnamese food, and looked round the royal greenhouses in the evening. Lurgy accelerated overnight, to the point where all my fingers swelled up, and about 6 am on Sunday morning, I seriously thought I was going to die, as I had about 2mm of throat left to breathe through. At that point, the 7+ months pregnant woman remembered she alsohad no health insurance. Sigh :((

Much sleep and icy water later, I was just about well enough to go to Ghent. Which was a good thing, as it's beautiful. And has Van Eyck altarpiece that is absolutely amazing. Ate, slept, and headed back to London the next morning. That's all the non-detailed version as I still feel teh grim, and had to take the day off work. But at least I don't think I'm going to die any more...

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