Tuesday 31 May, 2005

My night

You can rest assured I won't write this often normally - but I will have less internet access when I'm in the hills, and am taking advantage. (And there's that airconditioning thing.)

5.30 pm - 7.00 pm - I sat on the terrace of the Galle Face Green Hotel (which is tiled like a giant chessboard) and watched the sun set. The only problem was that I got there an hour too early which meant I got a bit drunk. They only served tall bottles of Carlsberg, a beer that has the tagline 'probably the best beer in the world'. They need to do assertiveness training. As do the engineers working on the site next door. Their slogan was 'Chance' engineers. I called Virginia so I could pretend she was with me as the sunset, but my phone card ran out.

7.15 pm - 8.30 pm - Returned home and watched two more episodes of Alias. Really good ones, in which Daddy spy, Mummy spy and Jennifer Garner spy catch a train through India together and dismantle numclear weapons - the first time they've gone out as a family in 20 years. They machine gun people, parachute out of planes - all as a happy family despite much tension caused by the fact the mother only married the father (and therefore only had her daughter) so she could infilitrate the CIA.

8.35 pm - Go out of my room to see if there is anything resembling dinner. It's totally dark. There is no one there.

8.35 pm - 9 pm - Watch Alias

9.05 pm - pace around in dark hallways fuming about my hunger and tierdness.

9.05 - 9.15 pm - watch Alias.

9.15 pm. I crack, and behave like a total autocrat. I go out, ring the servant bell, and order servants to make me dinner. I feel just like Jennifer Garner did when she tried to kill her boss. I'd crossed a line.

9.15 pm - 9.30 pm - Watch Alias.

9.30 pm - 9.45 pm. Eat dinner on my own with two people standing over me watching, waiting to whisk plates away as i finished each course (there were 3). I became very self conscious. Then I asked for water for my room, which I got. Then I asked for a bed sheet, which I was told I couldn't have because ' master has them all'. Was this revenge?

9.45 pm - 10 pm - Watch Alias

10 pm - 5 a.m - sleep under a fan, without a sheet.

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