I just had a phone call from my sister to tell me we'd got tickets for Ladies Singles semi-finals in the Wimbledon ballot. And I can't go because my boss is going on honeymoon over Wimbledon (she has a history of going on holiday over Christmas, New Year and Wimbledon) so I can't possibly have any time off whatsoever (there only being three people in our department and one of them only started at the beginning of January).

Work have a tendency to be ridiculously inflexible - when I've been ill and gone in all they want to point out is all the stuff I've done wrong (while I've been ill and not had a brain). So when I was really ill with flu (and I mean not able to stay awake for longer than a few hours) they did their level best to convince me to come in.

I so need a new job it's silly.