Read a sample of some guy's self-published novel on the web yesterday. A piece of advice: by no means should you ever name a place "Rectum Valley". It just isn't going to work, not even if you're trying to be funny, which this guy wasn't. I'm afraid I gave up at that point in the book.

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I don't know why, but I've been completely not with it all this week. I know there are things I should be doing, but my head won't tell me what they are. Maybe it's to do with the end of daylight saving (or is it the beginning? I can't remember). Leaving work in pitch black is depressing. It makes me feel like I'm never really awake. I feel like constantly peering out from a couple of inches behind my eyeballs. It's disconcerting and slighty surreal.

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The conservative party have dumped Ian Dunkin' Smith as their leader, probably because of his stupid comments about Lord of the Rings. This is a cause for celebration, even though they'll be as bad afterwards as they ever were before. However, they've made themselves look stupid and disloyal again. Anything that makes them less electable is a good thing. Up to replace him is probably the slimy Michael Howard. Howard, although partly bald, has more hair than the last couple of leaders of that miserable party. For some reason, the British electorate just won't elect bald people anymore, so unless Howard gets a bit of a wig, they're probably out of power for a while longer. Sadly, of course, that leaves us with Tony Blair likely to be prime minister all over again after the next election. Although it does have to be said that his hair is failing a little too. Perhaps there is hope yet.