Illness

I'm ill with a cold (in the middle of summer!), and it's a pretty bad one. I haven't been able to leave the house for the past two days and I've had to cancel stuff I had planned, which is annoying - illness is so inconvenient. But after two days with a cold, I should be getting better by tomorrow, right?

I've just been eating, drinking and watching TV and films - loads of Peep Show, Friends and some Ali G, and The Graduate and American Graffiti.

I did have some good news today though. And some bad news actually. The bad news was that I'm not getting a scholarship from Kobe University next year, which is a bummer, but the good news is that my student loan for the next academic year comes in August. I was planning on it coming in October, which meant I was considering getting a summer job to pay off my overdraft and tide me over for my first few weeks in Japan. But now it's coming in August I don't have to worry about all that. I celebrated by plunging further into my overdraft with an Amazon spending spree.