The first point I managed to leave the house today was at 6.30pm when I went to Tesco. This is what my course is doing to me. To make things worse, I appear to, in the space of a single day, lost all ability to socially interact with people as I stumbled my way through several broken conversation in and around the supermarket aisles.

I find supermarkets an odd experience. Although the whole shopping thing is now fairly regular, my main grievance is that when you have a quick chat (especially with people you only half know) you end up running into them over and over again. You can hardly say "hello" over and over, and you often find yourself coming up with ridiculous things like "Oh, you again!" which is really obvious, because the minute you run into them you both know that you are probably going to see each other several times before losing them somewhere in between bread and canned fish.

Yesterday I stayed in also. I would say I made progress with my RSA, but I didn't (today has been far more productive). Instead I sat around, did odd bits of work, and ended up watching Swan and Devito battle it out in Pro Evo before retiring last night.

Despite the headlock that my course has me in I did manage to find some relief in the fact that the Kazakhstan government is suing Borat for portraying the country as being "...populated by drunks who enjoy cow-punching as a sport." Brilliant.

Looking at photos of the Tsunami aftermath is depressing.