Back... With stories to tell

Over the past two months The Assistant has started her new job, earned her own client, visited Wales in order to write a review (for a movie for which a press ticket to the advanced screening never came through*), gone zip-flying with a party of 12-year-olds, been wined and dined by hopeful PRs, watched her boyfriend make 91 runs and earn Man of the Match in club cricket, raved in a crowded music tent with thousands of sweaty Londoners at the O2 Wireless festival in Hyde Park - where Underworld reaffirmed top place in her clubber's heart of old - and finally, last night competed with her new workmates in the JP Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge 2008**!

She ran the 5.6km in an uninspiring 33 minutes. And, has been sure to inform all those who ask - and even those who don't - that her tardy time was the result of her exhausting herself with a high impact boxing session at lunchtime. Next year she's aiming for an ambitious 29!

But perhaps the biggest change since last she wrote was the move into her Balham flat with said-Boyfriend. Gone are the days of tinned spinach dinners, Boyfriend is responsible for creating culinary delights to rival Jamie Oliver and even prepares colourful, organic bean salads and cous cous for her to take to work for lunch!

She's loved-up and earning a 'real' wage - for the first time in over a year - and now with her routine down pat she's ready to revive her beloved blog.

She just hopes you're all eager to read along!

* http://www.harpersbazaar.co.uk/going-out/The-Edge-of-Love/v1

** http://www.jpmorganchasecc.com/events.php?city_id=10&page=events071008