Oh boy.

Actually watched a few adverts on telly tonight. I usually just click onto another channel and watch music videos or something. But I saw this really odd and quite amusing advert. For Lucozade. Gone a bit Lara. Go there, view the trailer, and understand...

I went to a pub in Paglesham (deep in the Essex countryside) last night. I drove three of my work colleagues. It kind of made sense for me to drive, since I don't drink. Anyway, it turned out to be sort of exciting. First off I haven't driven since... I don't know when. Months and months. To make matters more complicated, Dad's car has this stalling problem when you drop the revs. So you have to sort of brake and accelerate at the same time. Heh. But I discovered a new and interesting problem with the car.

When I switched the lights on, it made a buzzing sound. The buzzing sound (which seemed to be coming from inside the dashboard) only happened when the sidelights were on. Which I didn't want anyway. So I turned to main beam. And then I discovered that I couldn't have them really bright, only dipped. Which was really handy, what with me having to drive through loads of twisty roads in the unlit countryside in order to get home. I fiddled with the lights occasionally, and the buzzing noise stopped. But the little blue headlight light on the dashboard gradually faded into non-existence. Weird...

Okay, so not very exciting, but I don't lead an exciting life. :-)

Another author came into work the other day. Barbara Nadel. I didn't see her, since I was filling up the art stuff at the time. (And the lift was being seen to by the engineers, so I had to carry all the stuff down the stairs. Drat.) Anyway, she wanted to buy a copy of her new book to send to someone abroad. We didn't have it - I don't think it's come out. Or it has but no-one had copies yet. But I digress. They got her to sign some copies of Arabesk. Heh.

And one last thing. We're supposed to smile at customers, right? So I smile at this guy, and he says, "Is there something wrong with my head?" And I say, "What?" Because I think I've misheard or something. Does not compute. And he says, "You looked at me and smiled. Is there something wrong with my head? I want to know before I go outside." I mean, you can't win, can you? Shall I just be the grumpiest shop assistant in the world?!

Drat...