its a bit nippy back here in my bijou flat but having waited around for a first year for three-quarters of your earth hours and having achieved a fair amount today i thought it was time to 'work from home' for the rest of the day. so i am going to write this blog then read about convicts before watching the rerun of the arsenal game on setanta. tomorrow its a police conference (probably a little dull but you never know), a board of studies meeting (def dull..) and then i'm off to the smoke to see the pistols at the academy (def NOT dull). so tonight i have to work out what to wear - get it sorted and organise my arse to get back here then drive/train to london to meet the captain and get to brixton. its sounding like a hectic day already but i cant get out of any of the daytime stuff.
which means that it would probably be better if She can't make it round tonight. She said she probably can't but then when can she see me - having texted this morning saying 'when are you free?' i replied any day apart from wednesday... the only day she can do is today. im not holding plans up for the weekend cos she will probably be busy and anyway its the big man's bidet on saturday and there's a match at home. we shall see what happens. the object of my real affections was back in touch again today - ful of cold poor thing -so i tried to cheer her up and think i succeeded. got dangerously close to her office today but managed to reign myself in with the latest copy of english historical review (its a sort of academic cold water cure for over excited historians). then i had a visit from a lovely canadian student from last year - all grown up in her business clothes which was nice, then a phonecall out of the blue from a friend in east london that i haven't spoken to in years. an invite to a party that sounds great but conflicts with the jaunt to welsh wales so i can't go 
never mind i might drop in on her when i take the students round whitechapel in the new year. all that and i wrote a review as well and part of a lecture (on convicts as if you're interested)
let's see what the evening has in store then...