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June 19, 2006
Bang!
People talk about their feet not touching the ground; it has been so long, my feet wouldn’t even recognise the ground if it came up and thumped them violently on the sole. If it doesn’t all stop some time soon it’s be my head that will be reacquainted with the ground first but anyway where was I? ...
So last week there was that essay, a double length one, due in on Friday but and you are going to have to trust me on this one, things kept happening. The kid is suddenly able to function on less sleep than me; people kept turning up out of the blue to name but a few hindrances and there I was at a quarter to midnight on Thursday with 2,000 words still to write, suddenly deciding that my very detailed plan was all wrong and needed some serious shifting around. At that moment the kid fell out of bed and at almost the same time there was a hell of a lot of shouting, and an almighty crash from downstairs in the main entrance to the block, it turned out that someone had thrown a monitor and printer through the window in the stairwell. For a moment I thought it had all got too much for me and I had thrown my own PC down the stairs in a fit of madness but when I checked, thank God it was still where it was supposed to be. It must’ve been someone else, I do kind of understand though...
I gave up after that.
And then we were away for the weekend at the Big Session Festival in Leicester. Write up on that to follow. Now here I am with a kiddy birthday tea to organise in time for tomorrow.
Oh and of course I’ve still got an essay to write.
See you on the other side, or not as the case may be.
Posted by purple elephant at June 19, 2006 03:01 PM