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my head that he might be interested in ME . Then I’ll hesitate and say maybe it isn’t such a great idea and how there are always articles in magazines about not mixing romance and work. Then I’ll let him persuade me that I’m wrong. I plan to wait at least a week before I tell him how terrific I think he is (but I will kiss him on the first date – I don’t want to play too hard to get).

FRIDAY 3 AUGUST
    I’m beginning to think that the ONE thing you can count on in Life is that nothing is EVER going to go the way you want it to. Really. Maybe I should just quit while I’m ahead and become a nun or something. I mean, being a nun isn’t really that bad, is it? You get a place to stay and food and a bunch of other nuns to do good deeds with, etc., and you know you’re never going to experience heartbreak and despair (nuns are married to Jesus, and Nan says He never lets anybody down). Ethan was already at the café when I got there. I acted like I hadn’t seen him at first, even though he stood out like a Jaguar in a car park full of Fords. (He looked INCREDIBLE ! Every female in the place was looking at him, even the ones with lads.) We ordered cappuccinos and chatted about this and that. When I couldn’t stand the suspense any more, I said, “So what did you want to ask me?” About the only thing that went according to my fantasies from that point on was that I acted surprised. I WAS SURPRISED . It isn’t ME he wants to go out with – it’s DISHA . I couldn’t believe it! My best friend? Is he thick or something? Couldn’t he tell I fancied him? He wanted to know if she had a boyfriend and also if I’d ask her if it was all right to ring her. I could’ve said she did have a boyfriend (someone INSANELY jealous with a black belt in karate), but I decided that was v immature. Also – even though I find it GALLING that he’s sometimes right – Sigmund says that most people are honest only because they’re afraid of getting caught, and I was worried Ethan might find out the truth (the way my luck’s going, it’s practically INEVITABLE ). Also, Disha Paski, as you know, is the most loyal friend a girl could have, so I know she’ll turn him down flat (which he certainly deserves). I said I’d ask her. Ethan said I was a real mate (but not the sort I’d had in mind!). The MC was glued to the telephone from the minute she got home, so, sadly, asking D if Ethan can call her will have to wait until tomorrow (I don’t see why I should
pay
to ask her). Decided to take a candlelit bath to cheer myself up. Stayed in the bath so long I was TOTALLY shrivelled. So now I know what I’m going to look like when I’m an old lady. I just hope I get a boyfriend before then, since I’m obviously not going to after!

SATURDAY 4 AUGUST
    Hung out with Disha, Flynn and Marcus today. Flynn’s just got his licence (he lost a year of school when he was in primary, so he’s older than us), so we went for a drive in the country. It started pissing down while we were still stuck in traffic. We got as far as
near Oxford
and then we left the motorway to find a quaint country teashop (the lads had been without food for two whole hours and were starving, of course). The English countryside looks pretty attractive in pictures and old films, but let me tell you it’s different when it’s right in your face. Even if we’d had any visibility in the rain, it wouldn’t’ve mattered, because you never knew what was round the next bend (another car, a dog, a cow…). After we nearly hit the cow (and it wasn’t just me and Disha who screamed), Flynn started going so slow we might as well have walked. We passed quite a few churches (though it could have been just one church, since we seemed to be going in circles) but no quaint country teashops. Disha said it’s because the English village is almost dead. Most of them don’t even have a post office any more. I said did the Prime Minister know about this, and she said that