Bah, minor ailments.

So far this summer I've been doing very well at avoiding insect bites, but one seems to have managed to get past my defences at some point yesterday. If I find it I will bite it back.

This hayfever is really starting to irritate me; somehow it seems worse because it's waited until August to strike rather than hitting in May or June like most people's. I spent two months thinking ‘ooh, hayfever season has clearly started but I still feel fine, perhaps I'm going to get away without it this year’, and then my hopes were cruelly dashed.

And perhaps most irritating of all, I played Metroid Prime for an hour last night while waiting for the house to air out after getting back from the Gallery (the GameCube has actually come in very handy in this circumstance – it's nice to have something I can do while the house airs out at night that doesn't require me to turn the lights on and attract insects!), and an hour of fighting a particularly unpleasant boss creature has given me a blister on my trigger thumb. I suppose I can't really claim I didn't ask for that, but it's annoying nonetheless. I'm just thankful that the ball of my thumb is unused when typing…