Day 252

Went round to my parents' and got the Christmas tree out of the loft. Then into town to the placement: talked to Sasha again. Afterwards the time went quite quickly - beat Reversi by 30 after losing by 52. Read more Latin, listened to The Young Postmen. Got a bit nervous about 7.30 but told myself to be of good courage. It worked. Put some addresses onto index cards. Left at 9 pm

No evenings on the placement till next Wednesday (who the f's going to come in to use a language library on Dec. 23rd?) and then none till Jan. 11th - and that'll be a morning.

Unemployment topped 2.9 million today - highest since Apr. 1987. Don't tell me there's nothing coming...