Entry for October 8, 2007

I am emerging from my cocoon of work. I am blinking in the sunlight and testing out my new brightly coloured wings.
And do you know what? It is nice to be a social butterfly once more, flitting gently around the country to see friends and family. Some of them don't seem to recognise me any more mind you. I can tell that by the way they hesitate when I invite them out for a drink and by the way their eyes narrow as they try to work out where they have seen me before. That and the way they say "Who are you, and why are you inviting me out for a drink. Go away strange pasty faced man."
I have persevered though and it has to be said that a festive snowball in a pal's flat leaves one with a warmer feeling than yet another late night in the library.
And it is not just the alcohol.