The Brain of Morbius

11.20pm.

‘Breaking Glass’ – David Bowie

Dear diary, you are all I’ve got in this hell!  I shall be seeing a lot of you, I presume, out of boredom.  I hated work today, in a way that I’ve never hated anything before.  It wasn’t so much the boredom and the 8 hours of continual heavy lifting of pallets onto lorries, it was the weather, which was absolutely boiling.  I’ve got sunburn.  And I wanted to stay white!  My arms are burning, boiling and baking.  The work was fucking hard.  Approx 7 weeks of this?  I nearly keeled over in the sun today.  I felt sick and I kept going hot ‘n’ cold.

When I shifted one crap-bastard pallet today, I saw three, quite irregularly inscribed, purple letters on the wood: BMW!  Gach!  An Omen?  I don’t really need her any more.  Why couldn’t the letters have been NB?!

The only thing that gets me through the day is the lunch break when I get to read – and right now I’ve begun a project of reading all the Doctor Who books I got as a kid that I have never read, starting with The Brain of Morbius by Terrance Dicks…

I had a bath tonite.  Did a bit of work on my BTC cassette, Bummers in America.

I’m not looking forward to tomorrow.  Please let a letter arrive from Flash!  Please let a letter arrive from Naomi!  Let Naomi be okay, somebody.  I really care about her.

I’ll ring Solomon tomorrow, I think…

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