Day 257

This was also a milestone, tomorrow being Christmas Eve Eve. Funny how the milestones stick when the significance of Christmas has declined. Walked through lucid frosty pre-dawn morning air to the tech. The time went very slowly till I slipped off at 10.50 to the county library for twenty minutes. Then played Windows Solitaire, watched satellite telly - Neighbours in German ('Des, Daf is todt' / 'Eileen ist in zehr guten Hande'). Also more Latin - this placement has improved my Latin no end.

At 3.10 Sasha hadn't arrived so I locked everything up and left. At 3.30, when I'd got home, the green suit bloke rang up wanting to know how they could get in: I told them to go to the Estates Office (which is what evil Ailsa told me), and as they didn't ring up again I presumed everything was OK.

Only one more shift to do, tomorrow: and it's only till 8pm not nine, which is a great improvement. Wonder if it's worth going to the Workshop tomorrow, if I left at 2.15 I could get there, fill in a timesheet and piss off again and still get to the tech by three.

M has to work till 9 pm tomorrow, which makes me feel better at least.