Today I feel like I need to be more awake than I have been lately. But I am not more awake than I have been lately so I feel unfulfilled. Outside the world is grey, a meandering hopelessness fills the air. Rain spatters the pavements as people plod on, staring at their feet. A week ago the gorgeous sun warmed our hearts and lifted our eyes to the skies. A week ago. What a lot can happen in a week. Both myself and Mogs seemed to magically have eaten something that made us quite ill over the weekend. He cured his by getting wrecked on Sunday night, I came home and felt shite without the aid of alcohol. He probably had the better idea as I hardly slept at all. Bah. Monday off work as I wasn’t really feeling up to it on account of lack of sleep and grumbling bowels. Nice, huh? Limped out on Monday evening for drinks with Liam. Non alcoholic drinks. Well, mostly. He was a little drunken apparently and texted me in the morning to apologise, I told him not to be silly I probably shouldn’t have gone out but I’m glad I did. He’s lovely. Yesterday was also pretty knackering, back at work but still overtired. Bits of the Elders to do, new press release and bizarre Mozilla issues. Damn open source software =P Fixed that by moving the border-bottom to be a text-decoration. Less pretty, but it’ll do. Bunged up a new press release too. << The Elders’ first mission will be Darfur Due to the urgency of the conflict and immense human suffering in Darfur, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Chair of The Elders, announced today that he will lead a delegation to Sudan, on September 30th – 5th October. The delegation will include Lakhdar Brahimi, Jimmy Carter, and Graça Machel. The Elders is a humanitarian initiative founded by Nelson Mandela and Graça Machel earlier this year, which brings together a historic group of world leaders to contribute their wisdom, independent leadership and integrity to tackle some of the world’s toughest problems. The group will meet in Khartoum with government and opposition, civil society and international organization representatives, and will then travel to Darfur to visit local community leaders and persons displaced from their homes. As Elders of the global village, they hope to help strengthen and deepen the framework for assuring a permanent peace in Sudan, by listening to, learning from and reporting on the views of the people in Darfur and others concerned with the crisis. Independent of any government or international organization, the Elders are consulting widely, including with leaders from the United Nations and the African Union, and have lent their support to the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1769 approved on July 31, authorizing a UN/AU peace-keeping force and the UN-Government of Sudan Joint Humanitarian Communiqué of March 28, 2007. Desmond Tutu said: “We want community leaders in Darfur to feel that they have been heard by us. And to the extent that we could then communicate their aspirations, their longings, particularly the women’s groups, we will do so. This is not just a quick trip for The Elders – we want the suffering to end – and we hope to contribute to that.” >> I wait with baited breath to see if they’re going to actually manage to get anything to change. Thursday is Flikk’s birthday but I don’t actually have any money so may not be able to make it. Sorry...will snog you later to make up for it And next week I’m 97. Urgh. Maybe I should lie about my age and say I’m 33... I blame Sunin. Dragged Liam out again last night for a wander around the South Bank. He protested unconvincingly, so we wandered up to Dali and then down to Bankside. Both of us forgot Peter Seller’s name. Wandered to a pub for eats. Pretended it was free. Not actually too much of a bad burger considering. Was asked if I’d prefer the Chelsea match or the Liverpool one, replied “neither”. Discovered that if I’m near a telly I can’t help<