sick and tired

Congratulations to my cousin Simone who had a baby girl called Olivia Nell yesterday. I'm happy to report that the family grapevine is still in excellent working order.

I have a cold at the moment. Did a few interviews today and yesterday but I feel tired and have to work hard to feel motivated. blah.

Yesterday afternoon I was watching the figure skating on tv (Figure skating is good- no need to listen to the words!) and it was some international championship and the Japanese girl did a blindingly fast and difficult performance which put her in first place and then the Australian girl came on and she did a really creative performance and didn't mess up and I was waiting to see how she scored.... when the power went out. I stomped to the bathroom and may have been heard cursing "bloody China, what am I doing here?" down the hallway. In this case, the power came back on a few minutes later, but by then the ice skating had changed into snooker. Later that night I saw a news flash that said the Japanese girl won, but I don't know how the Aussie girl scored. Gone with the Wind is going to be on tv tomorrow night and I am trying not to get excited because it might well be dubbed in Chinese. I wonder how you say "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn" in Chinese. There are not many Western / English language movies on tv here. The other night I actually got excited because "the three bears" cartoon movie came on, but after the opening credits it turned out to have been dubbed in Chinese.

I don't even watch that much tv normally, but at the moment I am sick and in a motel room and have read all my novels twice except for the one that I'm reading now (only read once) and don't want to finish too quickly.