So I ended up having a great time in my flying visit to Cambridge. I met up with Tim and Gus from work along with Charley, a great girl I know from Manager League. We did a tour of a few pubs and eventually gave my phone an alarming look as I realised we had to rush back to the station so I could get the last train back to the flat. They are all very nice people and I would recommend meeting them yourself. Also, my apologies for not letting friends know I was secretly in Cambridge, I was there for just 6 hours, barely long enough for a pint with the three I was meeting already. :-)

Then I was staying in the Ibis in Stevenage for the night last Tuesday. I had a meeting for work down at Axis House on Bath Road just outside Heathrow Airport. In the evening I got the train over to Hitchin to see Stuart. It was great to be back and made me realise just how much I miss the independance of living alone. It's nice to have the place to yourself but have a bunch of friends who regularly visit. I'd like to get back as soon as I can now.

I got driven down to the Worldspan offices for this meeting on Wednesday feeling all important. And then when back in the office mid afternoon, was asked by my parent to detour going back to Birmingham via theirs to fix their recently broken computer. So I ended up staying in Southwold for a few days which was lovely. It's always lovely to visit my parents, they're so loving and welcoming, feeding me well and looking after me. :-)

And now I'm back in Birmingham and I'm not exhausted, I'm not waking up feeling sick every day and I have generally ok energy levels. Not wishing to get too hopeful but this week and a half has been the best in a number of months. I just wish this is a sign of improvement.

Purely in the name of furthering scientific progress, and getting ready to go to Cambridge for the day, I'm up before the sun! It feels naughty.

I hate this time of year... the transition to Autumn is just depressing, but the worst thing of all is the reduced temperature in buildings... that temperature where it's not too cold to put the heating on, but just cold enough to piss off any office worker..

Sitting at my keyboard all day my fingers are outstretched and the movement for typing isn't a very good heat generator, so they go all numb and make typing difficult.

I guess I need to get some of those mittens that have finger holes that cute little kids wear. Either that or a USB heater of course.

Hey.. Happy Monday to you. I thought of an idea I can share that isn't depressive or another "I've done this and this post"....

I've not done much research into micro-sleeping, I first heard about it in the context of that woman (I forget her name) who sailed solo around the world on a posh yaught thing... It was fascinating that she could go for weeks without sleeping for more than 20 minutes at a time.

Now in my state I wake up feeling shit most days and am exhausted by the end of the normal 16 hour day (assuming 8 hours sleep - I just lie in bed awake rather than get extra sleep) even if I do nothing.

So what I was considering randomly is trialing a double-day-in-a-day scheme... I couldn't wake up when it's dark so I wake up at 8am, I stay awake for half a normal day (16 ÷ 2 = 8 hours) which takes me up to 4pm. I then take a four hour sleep to rechard and wake up again at 8pm! I stay awake until I get tired or 4am latest, where I do another 4 hours sleep and start the cycle again.

I even made a little clock diagram for you to visualise this. If you wish to have a large high resolution version of this clock to print and stick onto your kitchen clock, don't resitate to email!!!