After four hours sleep (kept awake worrying about thesis, money, and upcoming conferences) I am feeling the need for chocolate today. Mmmm chocolate - comforting milky goodness. Must resist.

Ack.

hey chris, what is it about today? i slept enough but my brain is mush. i need something stronger than chocolate!

i suspect i am suffering an essay-marking overdose. teaching this morning was baaad... i hardly was able to get correct words out of my mouth, and totally unable to make sense of what the students were saying. does anyone know a way, apart from illegal substances, to get my brain working again? it really, quite scarily, feels like it is "out of order". give me that chocolate you are resisting!

Try sports,

best a game like squash, where you really have to do more than you feel you can do, you should really feel exhausted and forget everything. Then a hot bath and a good night sleep and you will be refreshed!

A nice walk in the winter rain and gloom seems to have vivified me, a bit! I still had the chocolate bar though (just a small 45g one...)

I'm more of a cigarettes and coke (the soft drink not the drug) kinda girl, myself. But I know many who lean of choclatey goodness ...