Wednesday

As ever, going out on a weeknight proves unwise and I feel less than brilliantly prepared for what is still a massive pile of work to get through this morning. During the day it gets increasingly hot and stuffy in the office, meaning that when I'm proofreading and hence looking straight down at the desk, my heavy eyelids begin to close like one of those dolls that "goes to sleep" when you lie it down. It's not the most comfortable day - but it passes, like all the others.

I get home and get to work making dinner - a sausage-based bolognese type thing (something of a signature dish these days) with mushrooms and onions and the like, while watching even more 30 Rock. For some reason it takes almost two hours just to cook, eat and wash up - so by 8pm I'm exhausted with the kitchen and head to the living room to crack on with my Manager Mode season on FIFA 10, which hasn't had my undivided attention in recent weeks.

K gets home later and we put last night's episode of Luther on the iPlayer. This is the BBC's new cop-drama series starring Idris Elba (Stringer Bell from the Wire) and with a nice supporting role for the brilliant Paul McGann (I from Withnail and I). The dialogue's a bit cheesy in places, as tends to be the case in these British dramas, but Elba is great and the story tonight is creepy and well-executed; if just a little silly.