Relaxed and Refreshed? As if!

In a more awake moment yesterday, I sneered at Stuart Jeffries' Grauniad piece on sleep pods but in my current exhausted state, they've suddenly started to sound pretty good. If only we had them here. I guess I'll just have to go for the next best thing: swill back a few cups of noxious vending machine coffee and spend half an hour in the lavatory catching up on some sleep while the caffeine kicks in.

Random life details: draw contents

For no reason at all, here are the contents of the top draw of my office bureau:

• Peppermint chewing gum (4 packets)
• Packet of ibuprofen (3 tablets)
• Spearmint chewing gum (5 packets)
• Dried prunes
• Cell phone charger
• Tissues
• Unused diary for 2005
• Packet of ibuprofen (12 tablets)
• Glue

Anyone else want to fess up to anything strange in their desk?

Freedom to: results

Good news on the essay front: my Berlin effort has been rated as a creditable first. I'm not sure whether to feel disappointed by its failure crack the 90 percent barrier or terrified by the precedent it has set for the rest of the course.