impression

so!

at long last someone has noticed i'm not myself.

well - i say someone - i guess a number of the guys have asked what's wrong over the past few days - but when you say "nothing" why do they then assume you mean it??? of course you don't mean it. if they were real friends they'd follow up with further enquiries like "are you sure?" or "how can i help?"

of course i'm not sure.

rupert says he thinks i may have a touch of impression. asked jill what impression was and she says it's the feeling of helplessness you get when you look at something.

i looked at trigger. he was counting the llemons. i lost the will to live.

rupert must be right.

asked rupert how i could get help and at that moment jenny came past. she was dragging a sofa.

"what's wrong?" she asked

"nothing" i replied

"are you sure?" she said - "can i help in any way?"

it turns out that jenny is a qualified psycho-psychosist and has just taken delivery of her professional equipment - which is called a shaz lozenge.

said i thought a lozenge was a throat sweet - but apparently that's a fisherman's pie.

i have maybe misjudged jenny yet again. she is in fact really caring and she says that together we can work through all my issues and come out at the other end of this dark tunnel on a ray of hope.

i signed up on the spot for a course of 5 sessions.

"and how would you like to pay for that?" she said.