These long days are killing me, and I'm only half way through the first week!

I did have a nice lunch hour today though. When the weather's good, I sit by the pond in the sunshine and lately there's been some ducks visiting it. They're very friendly, and make me smile and remember my later grandma. We always used to feed the ducks at her house. It's nice to think of her when I'm outside, cos she always liked us being out in the fresh hour. I'm glad that I have good memories of her.

I hid in the uni library after my lunch. I got lost amongst the journal section, just being surrounded by the words was so soothing. I wandered and wandered and didn't get bored at all. I'm sure I freaked the students out. I contemplated lying down amongst the stacks and napping, but I could have got squashed.

There's lots of carboard boxes behind my desk at the moment full of folders we're giving away (for marketing reasons) so I told Tanya and Derek that I'm gonna use the boxes to create me a fort tomorrow and that I would be sleeping in it should anyone need one. And they thought I was joking.

Watched some of the crossover eps between CSI: Miami and CSI: New York tonight and they still make me smile in the best way. The dream team of Horatio and Mac for the win! One day, they'll team up with Grissom and fangirls everywhere will melt or the world'll explode or something. I look forward to that day. I'll grin for a week after it.

Blurgh! I do not want to be ill again. It seems that due to the lack of sleep over the weekend and the turn in the weather from hot and sunny to breezy and grey that I have a cold once again. It started yesterday with a cough errily like the one that started off the draining horrible virus I had a couple of months back (thankfully it's gone today) and a completely blocked nose. So I'm dosing up on all kinds of cold medicines and balsam tissues and I'm hoping to beat back the germs through determination and sheer number of medications. I'm not going through that virus again!

Watching CSI: Miami has been making me sad laterly. Cos I've only got basic television, I only get to see the lastest series they're showing over her in the UK series four and it's really depressing me and after each episode I end up feeling really tense - not good when you've got to get an early night for a 6.30am start the next day. It's because there's too many characters I really don't like - like Stetler of course and that frosty and vindictive Monica West, who try and hurt our heroes. But there is still some lovely stuff of course like the wonderful Horatio Caine (one of the best TV characters ever, though I do feel like the writers are trying to cause as much emotional and mental pain as possible on the man) and seeing him blindsided by Marisol and her charm at the end of last night's episode into accepting a dinner date with her was a delight that made me laugh. It's weird for me that a CSI show would make me so cranky cos I love all the regular characters in all three shows, it's just the ones out to get them I can't stand (which, duh, is the point I know). It's the same with NCIS, I watched Bete Noire recently and Ari made me skin crawl with dislike.

I am renaming Tuesday nights 'Crime Lab Nights' due to the abudance of goodness channel 5 gifts me with. CSI, followed by CSI Miami and then, if I can deal with it, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Saturday nights are good too cos there's NCIS and CSI: New York. I'm enjoying it while I can; when I go home for Easter the only TV that gets channel 5 is in the front room and I have a feeling that my parents won't let me monopolise two evenings with corpses and forensics. I'll have to be sneaky about it.

Today is a day that I hate being a woman - my period came so I have back cramps which really hurt. At least it'll be over by the time I'm train travelling to Cornwall and back. I am grateful for small mercys. I'm gonna have to chop up a pain pill and swallow a gallon water for some relief. Ick. One day someone will invent a really nice-tasting liquid pain relief medicine, I live in hope lol.