For the past few days I've felt very tired and apathetic. This morning, after what seemed like an excellent night's sleep, I feel as if what I need is to go straight back to bed for another excellent night's sleep. This is not normal, so I assume I'm ill in some fashion.

It might be a nonspecific viral uurgh of some sort, but actually I'm rather tempted to speculatively correlate it with accidentally being fed gluten on Tuesday evening. I'm not quite sure how I feel about that. On the one hand it would be pretty annoying to think that my entire week could be ruined by a small amount of undeclared soy sauce in a home-made beefburger, but on the other hand I've never before seen any perceptible symptoms of coeliac disease and it was also rather annoying to think that I was going through all this dietary hassle on nothing but a gastroenterologist's say-so; so it might be a relief to think that I am actually getting some benefit out of it.

Meanwhile at work, almost everybody in the office has disappeared to go to a marketing presentation. I avoid these (they're voluntary) on the grounds that marketing bores the wossnames off me; but when nobody else is in the room for an hour I occasionally start to wonder if I've missed some vital point and they're actually more interesting than they sound. Or if everyone here is actually expected to go to these presentations and I'm blighting my future career by sitting here doing real work instead. Or, in fact, any of the other collection of feelings normally grouped together under the umbrella term ‘peer pressure’. Bah. I avoided most of that at school (the really cool people smoke and drink already, the middling-cool ones can be persuaded, but nobody has any interest in even trying to persuade the geeky outcasts) and it's slightly annoying to find it turning up in the workplace :-/