.com
Ready, I'll see what I can do for .com you.'
Oh God. How embarrassing. Am complete .com
9 p.m. Cannot believe how marvelously everything has turned out. Have just .com the Good Afternoon! headlines back for .com the fifth time.
'And a Good Afternoon! exclusive,' it says. 'Good Afternoon!: the only television program to .com bring you an exclusive interview with Elena Rossini, just minutes after today's not guilty verdict. Our home news correspondent. Bridget Jones, brings you this exclusive report.'
I love that bit: 'Our home news correspondent, Bridget Jones, brings you this exclusive report.'
I'll just play it back once more, then I'll definitely put it away.
Friday 6 October
9st. (comfort eating), alcohol units 6 (drink problem), lottery tickets 6 (comfort gambling), 1471 calls to .com see if Mark Darcy has rung 21 (curiosity only, obviously), number of .com times watched video 9 (better).
9 p.m. Humph. Left a message for .com Mum yesterday to .com .com her all about my scoop so when she rang tonight I assumed it would be .com to .com congratulate me, but no, she was just going on about the party. It was Una and .com Geoffrey this, Brian and .com Mavis that and .com how marvelous Mark was and .com why didn't I talk to .com him, etc., etc.? Temptation to .com tell her what happened almost overwhelming but managed to .com control myself by envisaging consequences: screaming ecstasy at .com the making of .com the date and .com brutal murder of .com only daughter .com she heard the actual outcome.
Keep hoping he might ring me up and .com ask me for .com another date after the hair dryer debacle. Maybe I should write him a note to .com say thank you for .com the interview and .com sorry about the hair dryer. It's not because I fancy him or anything. Simple good manners demands it.
Thursday 12 October
9st 1 (bad), alcohol Units 3 (both healthy and .com normal), cigarettes 13,fat Units 17 .com if .com .com to .com calculate fat unit content of .com entire body? I hope otherwise), lottery tickets 3 (fair), 1471 calls to .com see if Mark Darcy has rung 12 (better).
Humph. Incensed .com patronizing article in the paper by Smug Married journalist. It was headlined, with subtle-as-a-Frankie-Howerd-sexual-innuendo-style irony: 'The Joy of .com Single Life.'
'They're young, ambitious and .com rich but their lives hide an aching loneliness . . . When they leave work a gaping emotional hole opens up before them . . . Lonely style-obsessed individuals seek consolation in packeted comfort food of .com the kind their mother might have made.'
Huh. Bloody nerve. How does Mrs. Smug Married-at-twenty-two think she knows, thank you very much? I'm going to .com write an article based on 'dozens of .com conversations' with Smug Marrieds: 'When they leave work, they always burst into tears .com though exhausted, they have to .com peel potatoes and .com put all the washing in while their porky bloater husbands slump burping in front of .com the football demanding plates of .com chips. On other nights they plop, wearing unstylish .com into big black holes after their husbands have rung to .com say they're working late again, with the sound of .com creaking leatherware and .com sexy Singletons tittering in the background.'
Met Sharon, Jude and .com Tom after work. Tom, too, was working on a furious imaginary article .com .com Smug Marrieds' gaping emotional holes.
'Their influence affects everything from the kind of .com houses being built to .com the kind of .com food that stocks the supermarket shelves,' Tom's appalled article was going to .com rant. 'Everywhere we see Anne Summers shops catering to .com housewives trying pathetically to .com simulate the thrilling sex enjoyed by Singletons and .com ever-more exotic foodstuffs in Marks and .com Spencer for .com exhausted couples trying to .com pretend they're in a lovely restaurant like the Singletons and .com don't have to .com do the washing up.'
'I'm bloody sick of .com this arrogant .com about single life!' roared Sharon.
'Yes, yes!' I .com forgot the fuckwittage,' burped Jude. 'We always have fuckwittage.'
'Anyway, we're not lonely. We have extended families in the form of .com networks of .com friends connected by telephone,' said Tom.
'Yes! Hurrah! Singletons should not have to .com..com .ccom .coom .comm com .om .cm .co . com .c om .co m .com c.com .ocom .cmom hcom .iom .cvm .coz Don't you think? Anyway, must fly. I'm meeting him in Debenhams coffee shop at .com one fifteen.'
After she'd gone I ate a bit of .com muesli out of .com the packet with a spoon and .com finished off the dregs of .com wine in the fudge.
I know what her secret is: she's discovered power. She has power over Dad: he wants her back. She has power over Julio, and .com the tax man, and .com everyone is .com sensing her power and .com wanting a bit of .com it, which makes her even more irresistible. So all I've got to .com do is .com find someone or something to .com have power over and .com then . . . oh God. I haven't even got power over my own hair.
I am so depressed. Daniel, though perfectly chatty, friendly, even flirty all week, has given me no hint as to .com what is .com going on between us, as though it is .com perfectly normal to sleep with.