Two Days and Two Nights

Welcome back, madcap Bonkers fans. It's been a while, hasn't it?

Allow me to fill in the blanks a little for you. T'was Easter holidays, you see, and neither Mother nor Father have the internet installed anymore, so cut off from technology and cyberspace I was at a loss to update you all on certain progressions. I know... tragic. Anywho, I've now been back in the Castle that is New for a little over two days and two nights now, and have only just gotten around to typing this: that's right, I have things to do. Makes a change, eh?

Change would seem to be the buzzword right about now. Mother has a new car, a rather nice Fiat Punto, to replace the poor departed Vauxhall Corsa... but not before the Ford Focus that engulfed both her and I during the first two weeks of Easter (and had a lovely CD player on board, I might add) ate lots of fuel and, thanks to a luxurious ride, made all other cars feel like you were driving a milkfloat with burst tyres. While wearing oven gloves. On the moon. Matt, meanwhile, has shifted jobs a little, leaving DEFRA and now maybe even heading towards more work with Her Majesty's (God bless her, and all who sail in her) Royal Air Force. But that's not before Eva the Snake needs to change her habits on pain of death. And I changed my underwear at 01:00 Thursday morning after driving up from Cuxton to Saltburn in a record four and a half hours at an average speed of 80mph... while Dad, ridden with a flu-type virus, fell asleep behind the wheel three times. I'll tell you, watching action films with cars swerving all over the road may be exciting, but being in one for real? Thank goodness there were no bullets. Oh, and guess who's changed assistants?

Then come next Wednesday I'll have registered my new Third Year modules at the History Department's annual "Hectic Scrum-Fest 3000", with places on History modules capped at 14 and only two hours in which to register for them. So I'll need to change notepads, book orders, etc. etc. And I'll be changing my favourite Star Trek series from Star Trek: Enterprise to Star Trek: Voyager after the chance to get a few seasons of Captain Janeway's Delta Quadrant adventures on DVD (too good to pass up, I'm afraid. That's another month's rent gone, then. Kidding, kidding...), and then who knows? If the exams arrive in four weeks and I start to panic, I might even be changing occupations and becoming a full time dustman. No, really.

A lot can happen in two days and two nights. Peace out, ladies and mentalmen. I shall return...

...unless, of course, anything changes...