Plus I had to make conversation with all those European men the other night, spending precious precious minutes explaining the difference between dispatch and disperse. It was just like being back at bloody work.

Plus one of my favourite 'housemates' was transferred elsewhere yesterday, so that she would be safe from the traffickers who abducted her 50 metres down the road from the house.

Plus le boyfriend has made it abundantly clear through the medium of a big beer-fuelled row that I am not to phone, text, or generally encourage Isaac, who as it turned out, needed very little encouragement to start things up again. Which leaves me in a big messy dilemma, entirely of my own creation. Bad little white girl.

Plus my mother is going mad, mad I tells ya. Her latest threat is to 'ignore you all, and go off to Dublin, where I can be alone'. Crazy white lady.

So, as you can see, I'm not really in the mood. This is funny though:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyamory

Most people will either be tempted to, or actually cheat on their partners at some point. One in three marriages end in divorce, in fact it's now becoming closer to one in two. I don't think humans are meant to be monogamous. If that was the case, surely instinct would demand that we stop finding other people attractive once in a relationship?

At least with polyamory, you can be honest with your partner about wanting to see other people. I don't think this is half as destrctive as pretending you only have eyes for them, and then spending three evenings a week pretending to play squash or catch up on paperwork, whilst secretly poking your neighbour in a Morrisons car park.

I don't know if it's possible to be happy with one person. I'm sure people manage it, but I think they may be in the minority. I think jealousy can be overcome, as long as you have the right attitude, but it's far harder to get over infidelity, because it ruins the trust between you. Why should we only be with one person at a time? Admittedly, things get a lot more complicated when there are children involved, but who decided that the nuclear family was the only way to go? The church, and the Daily Mail, that's who.