Page 299 - Bridget Jones's Diary - by Helen FIELDING

9st 4, alcohol units 12, cigarettes 38, calories 2976, friends and loved ones who
care about self this festive tide 0.

6 p.m. So glad decided to be festive Home Alone Singleton like Princess Diana.

6:05 p.m. Wonder where everybody is? I suppose they are all with their
boyfriends or have gone home to their families. Anyway, chance to get things
done . . . or they have families of own. Babies. Tiny fluffy children in pajamas

with pink cheeks looking at the Christmas tree excitedly. Or maybe they are all
at a big party except me. Anyway. Lots to do.

6:15 p.m. Anyway. Only an hour till Blind Date.

6:45 p.m. Oh God, I'm so lonely. Even Jude has forgotten about me. She has
been ringing all week panicking about what to buy Vile Richard. Mustn't be too
expensive: suggests getting too serious or an attempt to emasculate him (vg idea
if ask self); nor anything to wear as taste-gaffe minefield and might remind Vile
Richard of last girlfriend Vile Jilly (whom he does not want to get back with but
pretends still to love in order to avoid having to be in love with Jude - creep).

Latest idea was whisky but combined with other small gift so as not to seem
cheapskate or anonymous-possibly combined with tangerines and chocolate
coins, depending on whether Jude decided Christmas Stocking conceit over-cute
to point of nausea or terrifyingly smart in its Post-Modernity.