"Oh, it's one of THOSE days."

The lights here are flickering in a rather eerie manner, most likely due to the sudden rainfall and the dodgy electrics, and almost certainly not (as my sister used to argue) because there is a ghost living in our stairway.

Seems like the perfect time to start a new blog, if you ask me.

Spooky lighting aside, my day has been both hectic and rather uninteresting. I was dragged into work at 10:30 am, five short minutes after I had rubbed the gunk out of my eyes and sat up in bed. At work, there was approximately ten more issues than it was possible to solve in the time I was there. I left work three hours later, feeling drained after having fixed the scanner, invoiced some people, taken a few phone calls that were not meant for me, created some spreadsheets and gotten dragged into a business meeting when I dropped off some paperwork.

The reason I had to leave the office early was because my younger brother starts college tomorrow, and did not have any of the required supplies other than the graphic calculator I had given him once I had canned maths for good at the end of my A levels. So into town we went, thinking about half an hour and forty quid should cover it. One out-of-service cashpoint, a mad dash across town, a disorganised stationary store (somewhat ironic) and a hell of a queue later, we had spent all my brother's money and had still not obtained everything he needed, because apparently these days a schoolbag costs thirty quid. What the hell, WS Smith's?

However, it's the little things that make your day. Once we were home with all the required goods, and I had shown Stephen the correct way to organise all his college folders, I turned to my pile of post. One of my magazine subscriptions came with free tea bags, so life is good again.