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Horror of horrors, I'm starting to feel lonely. And like I could be doing better things with my time than reading quite as much as I am. Doing Things about this state will have to wait until after Easter though - setting up voluntary work and finally sorting out a gym just isn't practical in the next day and a bit. The electrician is promising to be out 'sometime late next week', which probably means that maybe, just maybe, something resembling a phone line and a net connection will be set up by the time my birthday rolls around in the middle of next month.

Not sure what, if anything, I'll do about my birthday. I don't know if I'll have friends or acquaintances here to celebrate it with, and I'm thinking that perhaps it would be a good time to be up in Sydney visiting people I haven't seen for a couple of years rather than moping around feeling like my life has no meaning beyond that of keeping a plush cushion and a small teddy bear company. Mum has suggested that she could come down to Sydney and meet me there for a birthday celebration if I feel like it, but I'm still so all over the place that I don't know what I want. I could get up there for free with travel vouchers, and it is only four hours, and I can think of at least two people who would offer me a place to stay, and I could see lots of people I've missed, assuming they won't be busy migrating to the Northern Territory a la Stephen and Linda. 

Could also go and see Krista and Alice in Melbourne, but that would take some arranging because it's further away, and while Alice would probably give me floor space in her room, she works. I'd have to be there for a weekend and maybe a bit around that or wait on the whims of the Leave Gods. Ten hours of travel each way for a weekend somewhere? Don't think so.