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slept like a log, didn't go to the cinema. I probably won't today either as I should cook the stuff I got for last night's dinner (and didn't have) and the flat is a tip. I think Neil would like to be able to sit down when he comes home. Luckily my driving lesson was moved to Wednesday this week.

Our lounge looks like the Finchley Book Repository. Neil's going to have to shift some of these boxes (I really can't move them more than a few feet) just so we can get around the room!

Also done all the DVDs, except for some of mine which were on a separate shelf (ran out of room in the DVD boxes before I got to that...)

I have no idea how we're going to manage to pack the rest of this up: Neil will have to find time to stick some of this in storage before Friday, just to leave us enough room to pack...

And it's not just my book addiction you know, Neil has a very healthy supply of crap clogging this place up! (haha, he's not here, I can say what I want!) Does he really need to keep all the cardboard boxes from his computer games in a box under the bed?? I can understand the Lego helicopter, but game boxes? I also believe that at least one of the underbed boxes has a large collection of Star Wars magazines, and although he took part of the Amiga back to his parents I think there are still Amiga bits in one of those IKEA cube-table things we have in the living room.

Oh well, time to pack another box....

I realised that:
1) I've packed what I can usefully pack at the moment
2) There's nothing on TV tonight
3) I packed all the DVDs
4) I can't see the living room TV anyway
5) I won't be able to go to the cinema again for a bit, what with moving and then the holidays.

Anyway, saw Little Miss Sunshine. Pretty good, but not brilliant, rather cringeworthy finish.

Also got a book at Borders as all mine are packed (doh, should have remembered to leave one out; would have been a good time to try to get into one I'd put aside). Sadly there were no novels that grabbed me--a shame as that's really the best thing for the train; if I read non-fiction I tend to stop every few pages to think about what I'm reading. I ended up with Joseph Stiglitz' new one, which is somewhat frustrating so far; as much as there is to criticise about the Washington Consensus and how globalisation has worked in practice, a lot of the anti-globalisation activists deserve a good smackdown too, and he fails to address why the extreme response is wrong as well.

(I did read Globalisation and Its Discontents when it came out, but I don't remember it--so perhaps his criticisms were more on-target there. Still, if your argument is that "there's some good stuff in globalisation, it's just being managed incorrectly", you should say why a more radical response isn't needed. You can't assume that your audience is familiar with your previous work.)

Neil should be home in a bit, yay :) (checked BA's online status and his flight arrived on time)