On her last day before her maternity leave, Lorna gave me more work to do which, in principle, I don't mind doing, since I'm still working less than what they pay me for, but the extra lessons are at such inconvenient times. One extra lesson is Thursday, period 1, a day on which I usually come in for the third period. She also stole me one of my remaining three free afternoons in two weeks, whereas my French colleages are only in three afternoons per fortnight. Well, I'm not too happy about that, but I'll live...probably.
The weekend was fine. We met at Sandra's and Ben's on Friday evening and played on my Super Nintendo. Unfortunately, Ben had to go to work again at 11pm, but the rest of us still enjoyed the games and the Foster's.


Sandra and Thomas were crappy at Super Mario Land, so I was responsibly for finishing levels after they had lost all their lives. Sarah once again stepped in to save the day, hehe.



Yesterday evening, we went into town, this time Ben could join us and we had a few drinks. Today, J+M are taking me to the cinema to see Slumdog Millionaire which has just won the Golden Globe for Best Film. After the film, we're going to a pizza place. Eating out is a fairly good idea at the moment, since the dishwasher broke. Mike had managed to keep it going for a few more days, but yesterday, it decided it doesn't want to live anymore. The new one will be delivered next week and until then, I hope, no one will use up a lot of dishes.

My biggest problem at the moment seems to be that I'm fighting a fight I can only lose. One of my DVDs came with some kind of theft protection and I just can't get it open. Since I had another DVD like that with which I didn't have a problem I assumed the new one would be just as easy to crack...it's not. I might just have to decide that the film is rubbish to make myself feel better...

See for yourself. How the hell am I supposed to get that red thingy out of the black thingy?