From Jen:

Name a character that you know I write or have written, and I'll tell you:

a. What initially prompted me to like the character enough to write about him/her.
b. One of his/her best traits.
c. One of his/her worst traits.
d. How easy/difficult I find it to write the character.
e. The story/chapter/paragraph/phrase where I feel that I truly captured the character.
f. My plans (if any) to write the character in the near future.

Yesterday, I went to Reading and bought a new TV. Which turned out to be more complicated and take longer than I thought it would. It's 23inch flatscreen widescreen. I can't quite get over the fact that I've spent so much money on a TV given that at the moment my viewing is half an hour a week. Although, I will be plugging my computer into it and watching videos from that on it, since I will then have a bigger TV screen than computer screen! Although it's not being delivered until Tuesday 25th Sept. That evening I have Rotaract, the next night I'm going to the ISIHAC stage show. Friday I'm going on a long weekend to Cardiff, so Thursday I'll be packing. So not quite sure when I'll have time to plug it in...

Oh, and it has a Freeview tuner, so I'll be able to watch four Freeview channels at once. And four analogue ones.

I also went to the Friar Street Bookshop (science fiction) shop, which is pretty much the only reason to choose Reading to shop at over Oxford. And they were having a closing down sale! I don't know why. I mean, I rarely bought anything from there as they were expensive, but they were much nicer than Forbidden Planet. Anyway, they had every at 808% off so I bought £80 worth of books for £16 (the first eight on this page, the four before it were the ones I got in Borders in Oxford last weekend).

When I got back, I happened to come across a couple of people I knew in town, one of whom told me they had the Town Hall open for English Heritage day. I've been in there before, but they had the back room open (that I never knew existed) so I got to see the mace, the copy of which is in the House of Commons. And we discovered there had been a small school in what was now just a ceiling! And the mayor (who I know) told us her opinions on her chair.

So it was a good day yesterday, and I thought I'd have a Chinese takeaway, since I have hardly any food. I felt tired and full after that and went to bed early. It wasn't until I was woken up at 12.20am with that annoying intermittent creaking noise from upstairs that I felt sick. The upstairs neighbours have gone away, I think, so I spent the night making plans as to what to do to get the noise stopped. I dreamt a couple of ways, both of which I've forgotten, but then they were both completely nonsensical. Fortunately, ear plugs blocked out the worst of the sound, so it was just me keeping me awake. I woke up 12 hours after I went to bed and I think I'm going to spend today reading and watching videos because I'm still tired. I think, contrary to what I thought before, I am still intolerant to mushrooms. Also, the noise has stopped. Which is good, I just don't know what happened with it.