Happy birthday to me!

It has been quite a week!
On Sunday I moved out of Muizenberg, in 38 degree heat with about 80% humidy, into a lovely little cottage in the quiet and peaceful suburb of Constantia. In fact im sitting in the garden right now typing this! On Monday it was my birthday. I actually went into the department with cupcakes at lunch time just to hear someone say happy birthday! How did I celebrate my birth day people have been asking, well I sat in the pool at home on my own drinking whiskey! Just in case you were wondering I have no friends. On Tuesday I had the best birthday present a girl could ask for, some moron rear-ended my car 2 blocks from my house!
Today I discovered that the dreaded office move has happened in my absence! First I open my office to find all my stuff in one corner and the new occupants desk right in the center of the room. I think she might be trying to tell me something! A little later one of the big cheeses starts badgering me about moving. She even walks me up to the new large shared office so I can pick a spot. Only problem is that all the other ocupants are already moved in. So that the only spaces that remain is one right next to the door or the back corner where there are no windows! Does it really matter at this point what I choose? Finally just to round off a bad day/week I hear that an attendence record is being kept for all the students and that our future space allocation will be dependent on our attendence over the next month! Well I say they can shove their attendence record where the sun dont shine! How can a person be expected to produce a thesis if they dont even have a desk?

I was reflecting today that more bad things have happened to me in the 6 months that I have lived in Cape Town than in the 6 years I was in Joburg - I think the universe is trying to tell me somthing!