Pigeons and headphones

So, I've been wondering today, just what percentage of our lives are spent unravelling headphone cables?
I swear, even though I carefully wrap them around my Ipod, when they're in my bag lazing the day away, they're actually plotting against me. What could make Helen's day worse? Ha ha ha. Let's just knot ourselves up and really p**s her off. Or something along those lines.
As I left work, it must have taken me a good two minutes to unravel them and the more annoyed I got, the more tangled they became. It seems like the key to it all is keeping calm. You have to pretend like you don't care. Or maybe even just shove one ear in anyway and leave the rest tangled, as an up yours to the headphones. Or I guess we could just act like sane people and realise the headphones aren't actualy plotting against us and it's simply a case of too many wires.

Speaking of plotting against me, the pigeons are back. We bought special,magical,pigeon-dispelling tape, which is essentially silver freakin' paper and it seemed to have worked for a while. But the Kentish Town pigeons are clever and they've realised that it isn't an animal moving around, its nothing to be scared about and it is in fact just shiny paper. So they returned making that God awful noise they make, waking me up at ridiculous o'clock, when they know I have no chance of going back to sleep. It's like they're daring each other to wait it out, playing a game of chicken on the balcony. I think they actually get a buzz out of making me get out of bed to clobber on the window and shoo them away. Stupid, useless, head bobbing animals!

Breathe!

Well, on a lighter note, the first full working week for some time has raced by and its almost the weekend. And one of my little kiddie winkles at work today told me I was a 'funny girl', which was sweet. Oh I probably should mention for those of you that don't know me, that I work as a pre-school teacher with 2-5 year olds, which is..................Well, let's just say there's never a dull moment. And also I am a writer of young adult fiction and am currently working on my debut novels. Although today I got another story idea, which disrupted everything, but you can't switch your head off, no matter how much you wish you could sometimes. You've gotta take what it gives you when it does and just hopefully mold it into something useful. So that's what I'll be attempting to do over the next few days. There really is no rest for the wicked!

Happy Friday for tomorrow!

Helen