All of a sudden I miss everyone
I've just had the most hectic week- A friend of Allie's has been visiting from America since Sunday, and so I've been out almost every night this week, showing two very lovely Connecticut-ites (-ians? -oids?) round Edinburgh, showing them where you can buy Haggis, finding interesting bands to go see, drinking in the town, finding haggis, going to pub quizzes, showing them where Arthur's Seat was, and being on hand to tell them that no, Loch Ness is just a little bit further away than a short bus ride. As is always the case, when someone comes to visit you do things you wouldn't have if you're just busy with the business of getting on with living, and I feel like I've seen more of Edinburgh in the last week than I have in the past three months.

Slightly complicating the issue was the fact that Allie was away for the first three days, having been given a surprise trip home for a week by her family. I guess that could have been awkward, but Heidi and Natalie (the two visitors) turned out to be lovely people, the best kind of guests that one could ask for. It also worked out quite well to keep me busy for the week that Allie was away- her and I don't seem to spend much time apart, we realised the other day. That's the way we seem to like it, too.

All in all, it was lovely. Slightly marred by the horrendous cold that I developed on friday, but it was discovered that without Lemsip I coughed like a dying coal miner, felt like my head was about to explode, couldn't hear anything, and could only communicate my pain to the outside world with a dry, hopeless croak. With Lemsip, however, I was a normal functioning human being again. It's also been established that if you have a cold, the best thing to do is drink it off. You're not ill if you're drunk. Fact.

Now, a wonderful week is over, my new friends are on their plane and the sun shines in through Allie's window, warm and golden as the evening rolls on in. The week is done, and I'm basking in the pleasant thought of fun times had, new friends gained, and that lovely moment when guests have gone, and you miss them, but the thought of lying down and doing nothing at all as good music plays, is the most appealing prospect of all.