Brevity is the essence of... something.

I'm at home.

The reasons for this are a little complicated. I was late into school anyway, seeing as how I decided to go back to sleep after switching my alarm off. In the end, I trudged in and made a beeline for my chair in the common room. I sat there for about ten minutes, looked at Bev's photos, listened to Mr Donan talking about work experience again, and then wondered if I ought to go to Politics. In the end I did go; perhaps a bad move as it later turned out. At about ten o'clock, I decided I'd had enough, informed Mr Evans - he was characteristically laid-back and gave me some sheets about political parties to "peruse at your leisure" - and went off down to the office, who were in fact rather helpful. Because of them, Pedar arrived some time later and we both went home - he was trying to avoid a clinic and I gave him a perfect excuse. He has since gone to do a Caesarean section, and I am going to watch Red Dwarf. Because I can.

"Emergency!" (or, a really short and pointless entry)

Have spent the afternoon lying in bed, reading, writing and watching Red Dwarf. As has already been established, I don't laugh generally at Red Dwarf, but every so often, there is a line in it that makes me laugh constantly for the next few days. The poor resident lunatics had to cope with this a few months ago when I wouldn't stop laughing at Kryten and his funky stuff. Well, I'm at it again. Holly - in fact, if I may interrupt myself, why Holly? I know s/he became female later on, but as the computer did start out male, why name him Holly, of all things? Not that I don't like the name - wasn't there a male character called Holly in Watership Down? - I just thought it was odd.

Anyway, yes. I love the way that computers in sci-fi generally tend to go to red alert and flash "Emergency" in times of trauma. Holly's method is to shout, "Emergency! Emergency! There's an emergency going on! Emergency! Still going on!"

Yes, I'm laughing. Just thinking about it. I must be nuts. While I'm on the subject, the Cat makes me laugh too. Just everything he does; the constant swishing and mirror-gazing make me giggle, and then in one of the episodes I was watching today, he decided to go "courting." On rollerskates. With a megaphone. "Attention all lady cats! I am feeling very sexy!"

And I'm laughing again. Because laughter is contagious, has anyone else seen this? I laughed at that, too.