What about extreme budgeting/scrimping for 3-4 months to build up a Flee Fund which will give you more options? If you know you have an exit date, it might be more bearable.
Just heard a bunch of lads crashing down the street singing "Ooh, aah Cantona." Took me back a few years - didn't realise there was such a hardcore Leeds base in Peckham. Must have been David_Carnell.
Can't beat a classic coq au vin or beouf bourgingnon (sic). Both could be made on the Sunday and reheated on the Tuesday - serve with a good crusty bread. Make or buy a choc. sauce and dip grapes and chopped bananas. No effort and can be seriously sexy.
I know nothing about finance but I can't let this go: Dick & Jane were published by Scott Foresman. I think you meant to direct UDT to Peter & Jane. Wouldn't want him to start banging on about Wall Street.
Bollocks indeed. (Though G.Expectations is the best Dickens by far.) Don't read this on public transport or you will come across as a loon: Mystery Man by Colin Bateman. Set in Belfast, a Crime Bookshop owner becomes a private eye by default. He is in the usual heroic mould: borderline autistic, an agoraphobic, hypochondriac virgin. It is very silly but fun to read.
Oh well, if you're up for it, the optimum scenario is this: Take a cab, put cabbie in blinkers and instruct him to drive up and down roads with speed humps. Meanwhile, indulge in furious sex while eating a lobster curry. That should do it.