I have been paid!

This morning I was up at half seven, after only five hours of sleep. Straight downstairs and onto the computer; I checked my bank account and just over £1700 has been paid in.

You know what this means? No more stress, funds available for when I urgently need them... I'm going back to England for Christmas and I'll finally be able to get my own laptop - at last! Going back to the very beginnings of this journal, in the summer of 2007, one of the things I coveted most was my own laptop. And a publishing deal.

I'm in a very good place now, and after the utter terror that has been these past two weeks, I'm definitely going to be careful with my money. I'd hate to get to late November, for example, and find that my money has run out - because it'll be January that I next get paid.