bitful

We are leaving tonight to spend the weekend at Dr B.'s parents in rural Staffordshire. His mother is going for a hot air balloon birthday present flight tomorrow (weather permitting) and we thought we'd go and watch her take off. It will also be nice to go away for a couple of days: I need all the rest I can get before a job interview for a new position within the team I currently work in as a contractor.

It is so refreshing to pack for a couple of days of countryside seclusion: I just threw into a bag two changes of underwear, a toothbrush, my contact lenses case and solution, and We Need To Talk About Kevin (which against all predictions I cannot put down, in some sort of car crash rubbernecking kind of way) - which took all of forty seconds. This sartorial minimalism means that no matter how near we will be, we shall not be going to Alton Towers GaydarDays this weekend.

There was some space left in my backpack, so I walked around the flat and jammed it with:

• a laptop, which is already configured to log on to Dr B.'s parents' wireless network;
• a media player filled with several gigabytes of tottiness (Prison Break, season 2 episodes 1 to 6), wittiness (Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, season 1 episode 2) and glitter ballsiness (Ta-Dah and Ta-Dah!);
• a smartphone that I have synchronised with Outlook (on which I have installed Attensa) so I can catch up with RSS feeds on the go;
• a camera, hoping to finally download the pictures from Barcelona earlier this month;
• and cables to connect all the above to the mains and with each other, as well as to the very welcome socket next to my reserved seat on the train.

Not entirely sure why I bother, since my usual 'six hours of sleep and I'm fine' pattern has lately morphed into 'ten hours and could I take a nap too please?'

I suspect Dr B. has started pumping sleep gas in the flat so he can have a good night's sleep without me pottering around from 5.30am.

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