shopping again

Its Lil Sis's 21st birthday celebrations tomorrow, so we are going out for a very swanky dinner. Of course, I am now having to try and find something suitable to wear, which necessitated a trip to Topshop, the mecca that is high street fashion. I hadn't been in for about 2 months, for the prime reason that every time I went in it was costing me about £100. A bad habit that had to stop. And this time was no exception. I saw the most fabulous dresses and adorable cardigans. All I want for Christmas is a Topshop shopping spree. They can even organize that for you, and give you a personal shopper and everything. The Boy should make a note of it.

Actually, this is a note about The Boy. I am currently so proud of him. He has been going through some really tough things recently, and he has shown a real grace under pressure. For a while things were really rough, but he's been very positive about everything, and made things much easier to deal with. I am impressed.

Tomorrow is such my skive day. I have a meeting at work, and leave early, so I will only be taking calls for about 4hours - what a lovely doss!! Its a good thing, because this week will feel so long. We have moved upstairs a floor, and now I don't know any of the people around me - I don't like it one bit. Its funny the little trivialities at work that make or break your day. It really makes me giggle; the fact that I care about those things really demonstrates that my work is not important or meaningful enough for me. I am about to start filling in a lot of graduate recruitment applications, mainly for something to do, rather than serious job applications. I have to do something to fill my day, so that I don't think about going to Topshop all the time!

So Condi got Powell's job. I have always wondered why someone as clearly intelligent as Condi Rice is a hawk. It makes no sense to me. I know that she is a Soviet scholar, and fair play to her; if I wasn't so interested in my American Studies shebang I would have loved to focused on the (former) Soviet states, but that is still no excuse for being such a hawk. Why, woman, why?