You think the financial markets have been volatile recently. Well you should try living the life of the JDK. Bear witness to the dizzying ups and down of my week so far:

I started the week expecting 2 curries. Our staff canteen always, without fail serves up a reasonably tasty curry on Wednesdays. Sometimes it's awesome. In addition, Catfish had invited me out on a curry night with her workmates on Thursday evening.

I love curry.

So I got in to work on monday all chirpy and happy at the thought of a two-curry week. Imagine my disppointment when I read the following e-mail from Catfish:

Catfish wrote:

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The curry we were due to have with my work colleagues on Thursday 12th, has been postponed to next thursday 19th.
And then imagine the crushing blow when I read the weekly canteen menu and realised that this week's curry had been replaced with... fish.

I hate fish.

Well... I was despondent. But as I had to pop into the supermarket anyway, I tried to make the best of a bad thing, and picked up a couple of Asda takeaway curries for our tea. Unfortunately they had nothing hotter then a chicken tikka masala, but a wussy curry is better then no curry at all! That said, I ate it somewhat grudgingly, knowing that it was a poor substitute for the real thing.

I had started the week on a high and then lost everything. Remind you of anything?

Anyway... about half way through Tuesday, I received another curry related e-mail from Catfish.

Catfish Wrote:

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Looks like the curry is going to be this Thursday and next Thursday as well !
Oh my god! Not only had my dreams of a curry night been restored, but they had been doubled! All was well with the world.

Then, this morning (Wednesday), I came into work - mildly disgruntled because I was going to have to scour the streets of Bedminger to find myself something edible for lunch instead of having curry (but otherwise cheerful due to the other curry situation).

Lunchtime came and one of my workmates wandered up to the canteen to buy some soup. When she came down, she had amazing news! The chef had decided to knock up a small batch of curry after all, just in case there were people that didn't fancy her experimental fish dish.

So all in all, I've gone from having 2 curries this week to none to THREE, plus one next week. It's like Christmas (or the Indian equivalent) has come!

I attach a small diagram that I have prepared to show you graphically how my week has gone.