slightly muffled

First half-day back at work today; mildly disorientating though the lack of people about made it slightly easier though the extreme warmth of the walk in at lunchtime didn't help in the slightest. Not too many emails and I wasn't immediately killed by someone irked that they'd been handed my stuff after I left and it looks like the absurdity of level of demand has been reduced somewhat which should make the next week start-of-the-month reporting-fest less silly-hours than it's been for the past few months. The muzzy jetlaggy sleepiness kicked in at about four and it became increasingly difficult to pick out words in what people were saying and it just felt wrong to be wearing full-length trousers after an entire month of leg-freedom and the rolled-up but still long sleeves of the shirt made the oppressively warm office even warmer.

Sitting in a darkened cinéma for a couple of hours always helps in that sort of situation though Nicky wasn't at all impressed with Iron Man and didn't want to stay until the end of the credit sequence for the wee extra bit. I like proper films but do like the odd bit of CGI-heavy cheese every now and then, especially when it's done in a reasonably comic-y style as fits a comic-y film and will in any case have plenty of time to see proper films next month during the film festival.

As well as being slightly warmer than expected it's also disturbingly light late in the evening over here considering it was almost fully dark by 6pm in NZ; as we've missed the gradual increase our senses of time are in need of some resetting and it was suddenly as late as 9pm but still light by the time we'd ambled back through the Meadows.