Aaaaaaaah, ah-uh-ah-uh-ahhhhhhh....

I was given an Easter egg today. It probably had something to do with a remark I made in passing, when I contemplated that I didn't receive an egg last year. I thought I was being wistful about it, but someone took pity on me anyway, and I came back from a meeting to find a Toblerone egg on my desk. I'm a little conflicted about it, since on the one hand I'd prefer not to be pitied (I'll leave you to speculate on the reasons why), but on the other hand it garnered me chocolate. Pity. Chocolate. Conflict. With hindsight, I think I'll decide that I don't feel terribly strenuously about the pity issue and take the chocolate and run.

The other side of this, is that with the egg came the welcome realisation that Easter is very near upon us. It's something I knew in an abstract sense without properly acknowledging it. I should have been more aware of it, since over here it means that we get a four day weekend, which will be not unwelcome. I don't have anything special planned for it, but then I rarely do. Easter normally falls around or between a couple of important (to me) family birthdays, at least one of which will normally see me home in Edinburgh, so I rarely head back for Easter itself, despite the extra time it affords me.

I'm sorely tempted to do something spontaneous (does it still count as spontaneous if I'm thinking about it now?), such as catching the Eurostar for a day or overnight trip to Paris, something I've wanted to do for a goodly while now. It's another of those items on my list of things to do before I leave London. I may or may not. I am trying to reign in my finances right now, to make sure that I have some monies to play with when I throw myself into the gaping, cavernous maw of unemployment, but I'm sure it won't hurt too much to have a little fun just now. That said I do have at least one day of the extended weekend planned.

Remember this?

The series was shown in British tv twice in my youth, and both times, both times! I managed to miss the pivotal 37th episode, where they actually find the city. You have to understand that the series practically lasted forever, and I was a huge fan of it (but then I think nearly everyone was a huge fan of it - I doubt you'd find many my age in Britain who couldn't still sing a few bars of the infamous theme song) so missing the episode that the entire series has spent an absolute eternity (I was given to hyperbole as a child) building up to was immensely frustrating... Which is why I'm currently downloading the entire series onto my laptop. At roughly twenty minutes an episode, there should be around 13 hours of material, enough to easily squeeze into a single marathon session.

Don't worry, I'm not trying to relive my childhood. I just haven't finished with the first one...