30/10/2002 - 1:40 p.m.

What a day.

I read over my presentation twice in the office when there was a lull in the calls and panicked quietly.

There was a humgous cloud burst just as I was about to leave to walk down to my class. I waited and fortunately it eased off a bit. But there was a huge thunder clap as I was half way down the hill. Scared the living daylights out of me I just wanted to go home and crawl under the bed. (on an semi-related note I used to have a cat who did that. It had been mistreated in its previous home and was terrified of fast movement or loud noises.)

Got down to uni - the only guy in the group walks round the corner says hi and asks did I know that one of the girls had dropped out. I didn't - she had sent a e-mail at 10pm last night which was after I had shut the computer down.

Had a minor meltdown talked about what we were going to and did some messing around.

The class started late and the first group ran their whole allocated 30 minutes. So we had less than 20 minutes to do a 30 minute presentation. The lecturer kept signalling when it was time for each speaker to move on. I personally thought I did the best job of editing - I tok 10 minutes of matter down to about 4 minutes and still got told by the person who had commissioned the work that I had some interesting stuff.

I am now cooking some oven fries and I plan to spent the rest of the afternon sitting on the sofa and shaking quietly. I think I am more nervous now that I was beforehand!!

And maybe sitting and enjoy some of the glorius worlds that are disguised between two covers!!! Go and read LA's book story.

Living the good life
Bels