Oddly, as soon as I decided to stop stressing about my sleep patterns, they suddenly became far more sensible! I may have managed only six hours on several of the nights of last week, but I then managed to lie in until 11am on both Saturday and Sunday, which is unheard of for my normally obsessively regular body clock. Mmmm.

Very relaxing weekend, anyway. Two rather good parties, a lot of sleep, a fair chunk of lying on the sofa playing Metroid Prime, and the usual Who on Sunday. All good stuff, although at some point I really must find the energy to do something useful with my spare time as well…

And I can now confidently predict that summer is over and the clouds will begin to come out. The reason being, ever since I got this haircut a month or two ago I've been trying to acquire a hat in case my scalp sunburns; having tried in town and found nothing that wasn't a horrible design or in a daft colour or very flimsy and made of straw, I then tried mail-ordering one, and after over a month of waiting I decided the first mail-order place I'd tried must have been defunct and tried a completely different one. On Saturday, an actual hat finally arrived at my door, so now I can walk around in the blazing sun without having to figure out a way to get sunblock past my hair to my scalp. Therefore, by Murphy's Law, this must be the moment at which the sun disappears completely and doesn't come back until next May. (Though, to be fair, that'd qualify as a pretty good result in any case, and I'd still have the hat for next year, so I won't be too upset if this actually happens.)