10:30 pm Wednesday 21st July 1999

Ho hum, one more day what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt… Enough of this gay banter, what have I been up to today?
Got up ~9:45 am and was at the lab at about 10:20 or so. Today I mostly tried to work on the mid-term report. I got a fair bit done, but the damn computer kept crashing. It seems it can't handle, power-point, word, internet, CD player and real-player all going at once. ;) Made up some more ester, and at about 1:30 pm I went to lunch with Nikki. It was good having a chat with her and I found out about the dinner and all that had happened there. Apparently it had been good, not fantastic, but good. They went to the Meridian afterwards and then back home. I'm glad I stayed home to crash, I have thick gray lines under my eyes and I would have looked a shocker trying to pass. Anyway, Nikki had been to lunch with Julie on Tuesday, so hopefully that whole saga is behind us all. Time will tell. Chatted with Nikki until 2:30 pm when we had to get back to work.
Went back to the lab and worked until about 3:00 pm when I got a phone call from Red who asked me to guess what bad thing had happened. I tried to think of the worst thing possible, so I asked if she had been in an accident. No. So I asked if she had broke up with Penny. Yes! I was kind of shocked.
I went straight away to God's to try and do my best as a friend and to do whatever you're supposed to do. Lloyd was there for a bit, but he already knew. So I spent the next hour with Red giving her a hand however I could. I saw her off at 5:00 pm and went back to the lab. I got an email at about 6:00 pm from Red saying thank you and that she and Penny were trying to figure something out. I will see what happens.
I worked until about 7:00 pm and came home. I had another pot of two-minute noodles with the rest of last nights tin of chicken stuff. Edible and I guess that is what counts. Watched a BBC documentary on the planets and then the news and came home to write my diary. And so here I am.
My next appointment with the Doctor is on Friday, and so that's drawing ever nearer. I'm pretty sure what I'll tell the doctor, because it's what I've been saying here all week. I would like a back-up psychologist if I can't get the one which Michelle recommended. I know Jen went to a different one, but I haven't received any word from her yet.
I'm trying to think of something else to write, but I seem to have dried up. It's too early to go to bed, and I'm bored with surfing the net, ho hum. I think I should take a day off from writing this damn thing so I can put something decent together.

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