When marimba rhythms start to play
Dance with me, make me sway
Like a lazy ocean hugs the shore
Hold me close, sway me more

Like a flower bending in the breeze
Bend with me, sway with ease
When we dance you have a way with me
Stay with me, sway with me

Other dancers may be on the floor
Dear, but my eyes will see only you
Only you have the magic technique
When we sway I go weak

I can hear the sounds of violins
Long before it begins
Make me thrill as only you know how
Sway me smooth, sway me now

Other dancers may be on the floor
Dear, but my eyes will see only you
Only you have the magic technique
When we sway I go weak

I can hear the sounds of violins
Long before it begins
Make me thrill as only you know how
Sway me smooth, sway me now
You know how
Sway me smooth, sway me now

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Philip Seymour Hoffman - CAPOTE
Terrence Howard - HUSTLE & FLOW
Heath Ledger - BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
Joaquin Phoenix - WALK THE LINE
David Strathairn - GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK.

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
George Clooney - SYRIANA
Matt Dillon - CRASH
Paul Giamatti - CINDERELLA MAN
Jake Gyllenhaal - BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
William Hurt - A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Judi Dench - MRS. HENDERSON PRESENTS
Felicity Huffman - TRANSAMERICA
Keira Knightley - PRIDE & PREJUDICE
Charlize Theron - NORTH COUNTRY
Reese Witherspoon - WALK THE LINE

PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Amy Adams - JUNEBUG
Catherine Keener - CAPOTE
Frances McDormand - NORTH COUNTRY
Rachel Weisz - THE CONSTANT GARDENER
Michelle Williams - BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM OF THE YEAR
HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE
TIM BURTON'S CORPSE BRIDE
WALLACE & GROMIT IN THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT

ACHIEVEMENT IN ART DIRECTION
GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK.
HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE
KING KONG
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
PRIDE & PREJUDICE

ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY
BATMAN BEGINS
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK.
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
THE NEW WORLD

ACHIEVEMENT IN COSTUME DESIGN
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
MRS. HENDERSON PRESENTSPRIDE & PREJUDICE
WALK THE LINE

ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
CAPOTE
CRASH
GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK.
MUNICH

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
DARWIN'S NIGHTMARE
ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM
MARCH OF THE PENGUINS
MURDERBALL
STREET FIGHT

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT
THE DEATH OF KEVIN CARTER: CASUALTY OF THE BANG BANG CLUB
GOD SLEEPS IN RWANDA
THE MUSHROOM CLUB
A NOTE OF TRIUMPH: THE GOLDEN AGE OF NORMAN CORWIN

ACHIEVEMENT IN FILM EDITING
CINDERELLA MAN
THE CONSTANT GARDENER
CRASH
MUNICH
WALK THE LINE

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OF THE YEAR
DON'T TELL
JOYEUX NOèL
PARADISE NOW
SOPHIE SCHOLL - THE FINAL DAYS
TSOTSI

ACHIEVEMENT IN MAKEUP
THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE
CINDERELLA MAN
STAR WARS: EPISODE III REVENGE OF THE SITH

ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC WRITTEN FOR MOTION PICTURES
(ORIGINAL SCORE)
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
THE CONSTANT GARDENER
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
MUNICH
PRIDE & PREJUDICE

ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC WRITTEN FOR MOTION PICTURES
(ORIGINAL SONG)
"In the Deep" - CRASH
"It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" - HUSTLE & FLOW
"Travelin' Thru" - TRANSAMERICA

BEST MOTION PICTURE OF THE YEAR
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
CAPOTE
CRASH
GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK.
MUNICH

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM
BADGERED
THE MOON AND THE SON: AN IMAGINED CONVERSATION
THE MYSTERIOUS GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORATIONS OF JASPER MORELLO
9
ONE MAN BAND

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
AUSREISSER (THE RUNAWAY)
CASHBACK
THE LAST FARM
OUR TIME IS UP
SIX SHOOTER

ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND EDITING
KING KONG
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
WAR OF THE WORLDS

ACHIEVEMENT IN SOUND MIXING
THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE
KING KONG
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA
WALK THE LINE
WAR OF THE WORLDS

ACHIEVEMENT IN VISUAL EFFECTS
THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE
KING KONG
WAR OF THE WORLDS

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
CAPOTE
THE CONSTANT GARDENER
A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
MUNICH

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
CRASH
GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK.
MATCH POINT
THE SQUID AND THE WHALE
SYRIANA

The Time Around Scars
by Michael Ondaatje

A girl whom I've not spoken to
or shared coffee with for several years
writes of an old scar.
On her wrist it sleeps, smooth and white,
the size of a leech.
I gave it to her
brandishing a new Italian penknife.
Look, I said turning,
and blood spat onto her shirt.

My wife has scars like spread raindrops
on knees and ankles,
she talks of broken greenhouse panes
and yet, apart from imagining red feet,
(a nymph out of Chagall)
I bring little to that scene.
We remember the time around scars,
they freeze irrelevant emotions
and divide us from present friends.
I remember this girl's face,
the widening rise of surprise.

And would she
moving with lover or husband
conceal or flaunt it,
or keep it at her wrist
a mysterious watch.
And this scar I then remember
is medallion of no emotion.

I would meet you now
and I would wish this scar
to have been given with
all the love
that never occured between us.

Best Motion Picture - Drama
Nominees:

Brokeback Mountain (2005)

The Constant Gardener (2005)

Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)

A History of Violence (2005)

Match Point (2005)


Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
Nominees:

Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005)

Pride & Prejudice (2005)

The Producers (2005)

The Squid and the Whale (2005)

Walk the Line (2005)


Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Nominees:

Russell Crowe for Cinderella Man (2005)

Philip Seymour Hoffman for Capote (2005)

Terrence Howard for Hustle & Flow (2005)

Heath Ledger for Brokeback Mountain (2005)

David Strathairn for Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)


Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
Nominees:

Maria Bello for A History of Violence (2005)

Felicity Huffman for Transamerica (2005)

Gwyneth Paltrow for Proof (2005)

Charlize Theron for North Country (2005)

Ziyi Zhang for Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)


Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
Nominees:

Pierce Brosnan for The Matador (2005)

Jeff Daniels for The Squid and the Whale (2005)

Johnny Depp for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

Nathan Lane for The Producers (2005)

Cillian Murphy for Breakfast on Pluto (2005)

Joaquin Phoenix for Walk the Line (2005)


Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy
Nominees:

Judi Dench for Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005)

Keira Knightley for Pride & Prejudice (2005)

Laura Linney for The Squid and the Whale (2005)

Sarah Jessica Parker for The Family Stone (2005)

Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line (2005)


Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Nominees:

George Clooney for Syriana (2005)

Matt Dillon for Crash (2004)

Will Ferrell for The Producers (2005)

Paul Giamatti for Cinderella Man (2005)

Bob Hoskins for Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005)


Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Nominees:

Scarlett Johansson for Match Point (2005)

Shirley MacLaine for In Her Shoes (2005)

Frances McDormand for North Country (2005)

Rachel Weisz for The Constant Gardener (2005)

Michelle Williams for Brokeback Mountain (2005)


Best Director - Motion Picture
Nominees:

Woody Allen for Match Point (2005)

George Clooney for Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)

Peter Jackson for King Kong (2005)

Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain (2005)

Fernando Meirelles for The Constant Gardener (2005)

Steven Spielberg for Munich (2005)


Best Screenplay - Motion Picture
Nominees:

Brokeback Mountain (2005) - Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana

Crash (2004) - Paul Haggis

Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) - George Clooney, Grant Heslov

Match Point (2005) - Woody Allen

Munich (2005) - Tony Kushner


Best Original Song - Motion Picture
Nominees:

Brokeback Mountain (2005) ("A Love That Will Never Grow Old")

Christmas in Love (2004) ("Christmas in Love")

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) ("Wunderkind")

The Producers (2005) ("There’s Nothing Like a Show on Broadway")

Transamerica (2005) ("Travelin’ Thru")


Best Original Score - Motion Picture
Nominees:

Brokeback Mountain (2005) - Gustavo Santaolalla

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) - Harry Gregson-Williams

King Kong (2005) - James Newton Howard

Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) - John Williams

Syriana (2005) - Alexandre Desplat


Best Foreign Language Film
Nominees:

Joyeux Noël (2005) (France)

Kung fu (2004) (Hong Kong)

Mo gik (2005) (China)

Paradise Now (2005) (Palestine)

Tsotsi (2005) (South Africa)


Best Television Series - Drama
Nominees:

"Commander in Chief" (2005)

"Grey's Anatomy" (2005)

"Lost" (2004)

"Prison Break" (2005)

"Rome" (2005)


Best Television Series - Musical or Comedy
Nominees:

"Curb Your Enthusiasm" (2000)

"Desperate Housewives" (2004)

"Entourage" (2004)

"Everybody Hates Chris" (2005)

"My Name Is Earl" (2005)

"Weeds" (2005)


Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Nominees:

"Blackpool" (2004) (mini)

Empire Falls (2005) (TV)

"Into the West" (2005) (mini)

"Sleeper Cell" (2005)

Warm Springs (2005) (TV)


Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television
Nominees:

Kenneth Branagh for Warm Springs (2005) (TV)

Ed Harris for Empire Falls (2005) (TV)

Bill Nighy for The Girl in the Café (2005) (TV)

Jonathan Rhys-Meyers for "Elvis" (2005) (mini)

Donald Sutherland for "Human Trafficking" (2005) (mini)


Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television
Nominees:

Halle Berry for Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005) (TV)

Kelly Macdonald for The Girl in the Café (2005) (TV)

S. Epatha Merkerson for Lackawanna Blues (2005) (TV)

Cynthia Nixon for Warm Springs (2005) (TV)

Susan Sarandon for The Exonerated (2005) (TV)


Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy
Nominees:

Zach Braff for "Scrubs" (2001)

Steve Carell for "The Office" (2005)

Larry David for "Curb Your Enthusiasm" (2000)

Jason Lee for "My Name Is Earl" (2005)

Charlie Sheen for "Two and a Half Men" (2003)


Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy
Nominees:

Marcia Cross for "Desperate Housewives" (2004)

Teri Hatcher for "Desperate Housewives" (2004)

Felicity Huffman for "Desperate Housewives" (2004)

Eva Longoria for "Desperate Housewives" (2004)

Mary-Louise Parker for "Weeds" (2005)


Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama
Nominees:

Patrick Dempsey for "Grey's Anatomy" (2005)

Matthew Fox for "Lost" (2004)

Hugh Laurie for "House, M.D." (2004)

Wentworth Miller for "Prison Break" (2005)

Kiefer Sutherland for "24" (2001)


Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama
Nominees:

Patricia Arquette for "Medium" (2005)

Glenn Close for "The Shield" (2002)

Geena Davis for "Commander in Chief" (2005)

Kyra Sedgwick for "The Closer" (2005)

Polly Walker for "Rome" (2005)


Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Nominees:

Naveen Andrews for "Lost" (2004)

Paul Newman for Empire Falls (2005) (TV)

Jeremy Piven for "Entourage" (2004)

Randy Quaid for "Elvis" (2005) (mini)

Donald Sutherland for "Commander in Chief" (2005)


Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Nominees:

Candice Bergen for "Boston Legal" (2004)

Camryn Manheim for "Elvis" (2005) (mini)

Sandra Oh for "Grey's Anatomy" (2005)

Elizabeth Perkins for "Weeds" (2005)

Joanne Woodward for Empire Falls (2005) (TV)

These are just some of the books I have lying around the house that I have yet to read.

What shall I read next?

1. Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult
2. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
3. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
4. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
5. Angry Housewives eating Bonbons by Lorna Landvik
6. Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb
7. Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
8. Don Quixote by Cervantes
9. Hard Times by Charles Dickens
10.Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath by Anne Stevenson
11.Under my Skin by Doris Lessing
12. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
13.Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier
14. Norwegian wood by Haruki Murakami
15.Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault
16.Little Indiscretions by Carmen Pousadas
17.A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
18.The Persian Boy by Mary Renault
19.The Emperor's General by James Webb
20.White Teeth by Zadie Smith
21.The Olive Season by Carol Drinkwater
22.Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
23.The Collector by John Fowles
24 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
25.A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
26.Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
27.Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem
28.Everything is illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
29.Tarte Tatin by Susan Loomis
30.Bare Bones by Kathy Reichs
31.Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
32.The Natural by Bernard Malamud
33.Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
34.War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
35.Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
36.The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
37.The Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst
38.Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst
39.The Bone People by Keri Hulme
40.The Tao of Pooh and the Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff
41.Fiery Cross by Diana Gabaldon
42.Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
43.Miracle at Sant'Anna by James McBride
44.Blessings by Anna Quindlen
45.Around the World on expenses by Peter Biddlecombe
46.Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
47.The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
48.Exodus by Leon Uris
49.The Haj by Leon Uris
50.The Nautical Chart by Arturo Perez-Reverte
51.Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo
52.Carry me across the water by Ethan Canin
53.Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith
54.Silk Road by Jeanne Larsen
55.The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
56.The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
57.Disobedience by Jane Hamilton
58.Ninguem escreve ao Coronel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
59.True at First light by Ernest Hemingway
60.Somewhere south of here by William Kowalski
61.My Year of Meat by Ruth L Ozeki
62.Os Medicos do impossivel by Christian Bernadac
63.We the living by Ayn Rand
64.Garden of Beasts by Jeffery Deaver
65.The Constant Gardener by John Le Carre
66.Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
67.Gabriella, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado
68.Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
69.Strange Fits of Passion by Anita Shreve
70.Every Boy's Got One by Meg Cabot
71.The Crimson Petal and the White by Michael Faber
72.Big Bad Wolf by James Patterson
73.London Bridges by James Patterson
74.Trace by Patricia Cornwell
75.The Guy Next Door by Meg Cabot
76.The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
77.Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
78.If this is a Man by Primo Levi
79.Dry by Augusten Burroughs
80.Fat Land by Greg Critser

Today's lunch was very disappointing. The food was not as good as on previous occasions, and the company wasn't all that great either.

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love."

I hate being at work this time of the year. I'd much rather be lying by the pool....not that we've had much sunshine lately. Enough with the rain already!

The more I live,
The more I learn.
The more I learn,
The more I realize
The less I know.
Each step I take,
(Papa, I've a voice now!)
Each page I turn,
(Papa, I've a choice now!)
Each mile I travel only means
The more I have to go!
What's wrong with wanting more?
If you can fly, then soar!
With all there is,
Why settle for
Just a piece of sky?

I went to heaven,--
'T was a small town,
Lit with a ruby,
Lathed with down.
Stiller than the fields
At the full dew,
Beautiful as pictures
No man drew.
People like the moth,
Of mechlin, frames,
Duties of gossamer,
And eider names.
Almost contented
I could be
'Mong such unique
Society.

It's pouring with rain here. The temperature hasn't cooled down though. It's hot!!

I was planning to do so many things today, but ended up doing nothing. What a waste!

I'm glad LJ is back up again. I felt really lost yesterday but it gave me a chance to do a lot of other things. The new season of GG starts today. Yay! I can't wait. Will I ever get my bibliophil list up to date?

Take away the sensation inside
Bitter sweet migraine in my head
Its like a throbbing tooth ache of the mind
I can't take this feeling anymore

Drain the pressure from the swelling,
The sensations overwhelming,
Give me a long kiss goodnight and everything will be alright
Tell me that I won't feel a thing
So give me Novacaine

Out of body and out of mind
Kiss the demons out of my dreams
I get the funny feeling, that’s alright
Jimmy says it's better than here,
I’ll tell you why

Drain the pressure from the swelling,
The sensations overwhelming,
Give me a kiss long goodnight and everything will be alright,
Tell me that I won't feel a thing,
So give me Novacaine

Oh Novacaine

Drain the pressure from the swelling,
The sensations overwhelming
Give me a kiss long goodnight and everything will be alright,
Tell me Jimmy I won't feel a thing,
So give me Novacaine

Yay! I love GG. Can't wait for the new season to start next week. Reruns are fun to watch though.

I've been playing around with my LJ backgrounds. I'm learning as I go along.

I feel like eating a chocolate.

Today dragged. How unusual for a Monday.

I am so impressed. I cooked supper for the first time in ages. It was damn nice too. I made stir fried rice based on one of the recipes I got on LJ and added some sausage to it. Yummy!!

M has prostatitis. Ouch!

Asked Shaun to come fix my gate tomorrow. I will be truly pissed off if he lets me down.

It didn't rain today. I hope the sun is back for good.

I think I'm coming down with flu or something. Pleeeeezzzzzzzzz make it go away!!!!

Serenade
by Edgar Allan Poe

So sweet the hour, so calm the time,
I feel it more than half a crime,
When Nature sleeps and stars are mute,
To mar the silence ev'n with lute.
At rest on ocean's brilliant dyes
An image of Elysium lies:
Seven Pleiades entranced in Heaven,
Form in the deep another seven:
Endymion nodding from above
Sees in the sea a second love.
Within the valleys dim and brown,
And on the spectral mountain's crown,
The wearied light is dying down,
And earth, and stars, and sea, and sky
Are redolent of sleep, as I
Am redolent of thee and thine
Enthralling love, my Adeline.
But list, O list,- so soft and low
Thy lover's voice tonight shall flow,
That, scarce awake, thy soul shall deem
My words the music of a dream.
Thus, while no single sound too rude
Upon thy slumber shall intrude,
Our thoughts, our souls- O God above!
In every deed shall mingle, love.

I couldn't sleep last night.... it was so hot. Had some of Peter's Xmas cake and I swear, there's at least one bottle of brandy in every slice. I slept like a baby afterwards.

Got the dreaded phone call to P and L over and done with. I feel so guilty every time I speak to them.

I'm thinking of changing some of my Unisa subjects this semester. Must make up my mind soon.

The night is come, but not too soon;
And sinking silently,
All silently, the little moon
Drops down behind the sky.

There is no light in earth or heaven
But the cold light of stars;
And the first watch of night is given
To the red planet Mars.

Is it the tender star of love?
The star of love and dreams?
O no ! from that blue tent above,
A hero's armour gleams.

And earnest thoughts within me rise,
When I behold afar,
Suspended in the evening skies,
The shield of that red star.

O star of strength! I see thee stand
And smile upon my pain;
Thou beckonest with thy mailed hand,
And I am strong again.

Within my breast there is no light
But the cold light of stars;
I give the first watch of the night
To the red planet Mars.

The star of the unconquered will,
He rises in my breast,
Serene, and resolute, and still,
And calm, and self-possessed.

And thou, too, whosoe'er thou art,
That readest this brief psalm,
As one by one thy hopes depart,
Be resolute and calm.

O fear not in a world like this,
And thou shalt know erelong,
Know how sublime a thing it is
To suffer and be strong.

That stupid storm kept me awake most of the night.

Sandra Bullock has always been one of my favorite actresses and after hearing that she donated $1million to the American Red Cross to aid the tsunami victims, I like her even more.

So I registered with Unisa today. I'm doing six subjects this semester. I'll probably regret it closer to exam time.

I shouldn't have come to work today.

I donated some money to the Asia tsunami disaster fund today. It wasn't much but I suppose every cent helps .

Wow.That was one of the worst storms we've ever had.I've never seen so much rain and hail before.My poor cat was terrified.

Why did I decide to come back to work today?I'm such an idiot.This place is like a morgue,it's so quiet.The air con isn't working properly so the heater is on.I don't intend on being here much longer.

Last night I couldn't sleep.It was after one when I eventually fell asleep.This morning I nearly had a heart attack when my alarm rang.Serves me right for changing the ringing tone.

I finally got some much needed sleep.I wish I didn't have to go back to work tomorrow.

I hate New Year's Day.It's a day just like any other day except that's it's even more quiet and depressing.I am not making any resolutions.What's the point anyway? It's not as if I ever keep to any of them.

American Idiot is definitely my favorite CD of 2004.