Bah. I've lost my umbrella again.

This time I think I can remember where, though. I definitely had it when I arrived at Pizza Express on Monday night, I remember hanging it on their coat stand to dry, and I'm pretty positive I didn't pick it up again when I went out. When they open today I'll phone them and see if they've still got it.

It has without a doubt been Strange Dreams Week for me. Last night's was some sort of a cross between Doctor Who and a zombie-and-monsters movie; I think I was the Doctor's companion, but about half way through I got rather confused about which one of the Doctor and the zombies I was trying to get away from, and then ended up trying to escape from both by catching a train, but was foiled because they were all delayed. (I'm sure I've had train stress dreams before. I don't even use trains that much, but there seems to be a running theme here.) The night before I spent on the moon, only it was a moonbase designed by a second-rate sci-fi author who didn't see what the fuss was about airtightness; I kept running around complaining about this, but everyone ignored me and stubbornly carried on breathing regardless. The really odd bit was that what was mostly a sensibly futuristic-looking moonbase also had a small annexe containing a rather large and perfectly ordinary Sainsbury's.

The previous two nights weren't any more sensible, though I can't remember any of the details any more. I don't think there's been a morning this week on which I haven't got out of bed muttering to myself ‘Now what the hell was that all about?’.

Work has also been moderately odd, owing to a large design task which is currently hovering at the point of completion; it's now at the stage where I think I've got it right this time, but may at any moment suddenly realise it's all doomed and I'm back to the drawing board. Which means I'm unsure of whether to feel satisfied or apprehensive or what, which contributes to my general feeling of surreality.

And as if that wasn't enough strangeness in one week, on Wednesday night elise completed her quest to show me all of Neon Genesis Evangelion: a series which starts off strange, gets stranger 2/3 of the way through, and somewhere in the final four episodes we watched this week it went completely off the rails into utter bizarreness.

It has therefore, without doubt, been a very weird week.