just when i'd made up my mind and taken down all the necessary books for a week of serious studying (but of course interspersed with a good number of social appointments and as many children's books as i could take out on the entire family's library cards.) i find someone's uploaded three seasons of the good life on youtube and appears to be uploading the fourth too. why do i bother, why? she sighs, putting her books away.



appendix a: social appointments for this week

wednesday: lunch with yvonne, tea with dr y.
thursday or friday: lunch with yt
saturday: s.l.d's wedding
sunday: go with w.l. to pick out wedding gown, dinner with uncle in melbourne who's stopping over in singapore en route to bangkok

appendix b: children's books taken out

Leigh Sauerwein: Song for Eloise
Frank Cottrell Boyce: Framed
Jenny Valentine : Finding Violet Park
Sioban Dowd: A Swift Pure Cry
M.T. Anderson: The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Vol 1.
Phillipa Pearce: The Little Gentleman
Cynthia Lord - Rules
Diana Wynne Jones - The Time of the Ghost
and a few bingo browns and pratchetts.