Hmmmm… *EDITX2*

So, I had my second to last dentist appointment today. This one was to try on wax versions of my false teeth to make sure they would fit ok and that I wouldn’t have any problems biting. Everything went fine so next week I actually get my teeth. Then I never have to visit that torture chamber ever again.

To be honest, I’l probably just use my falsies for things like job interviews and other such important events. I’ve got used to the way things are so I don’t consider them to be essential. We’ll see though.

Today was the deadline for applying for the SFX job. So it’s probably a bit unrealistic expecting them to respond already. Today is also supposed to be the day that the winner of the Perfectly Formed short story competition is to be announced so I don’t think it’s too unrealistic to be getting annoyed that hasn’t happened yet. I’m fairly sure I’d know by now if I was the winner but I live in hope.

Or denial.

Turns out I didn’t have as much to talk about as I thought. My fight with Talkmobile is finally over (yay!) and I’m just waiting for 3 mobile to get in touch regarding a problem with my broadband dongle. Not that I’m actually going to tell them how the problem started to begin with (basically, I dropped my laptop on the floor one night and it landed on the side the dongle is on, meaning the connector is at an odd angle. It’s just recently decided to disconnect whenever I move the laptop, which is quite a bit, or even nudge the dongle slightly. Which, as you can probably imagine, is ever so slightly fucking annoying. Except for ‘ever so slightly’ read extremely).

And that, ladies and gentlefolk, is how one pads out an otherwise short and crap entry. Now, it’s long and crap.

I’m also waiting for the latest episode of Mad Men to download so that when I go home I can have my now weekly Mad Men triple bill.

Which is always good.

Fun fact: did you know that the song that people regularly call Another Brick in the Wall (the one that got to Christmas number one over here) is, in fact called Another Brick in the Wall Pt 2?

Don’t say you never learn anything from me.

Will

*EDIT* Just found out, from a reply to someone from Books Quarterly’s Twitter account that they need an extra 10 days to choose a winner due to number/quality of entries.

While I understand why the need for the extra time, and actually appreciate the fact they don’t want to rush things, a courtesy email explaining the situation, or even updating the competition website to let people know what had happened would have been fucking nice.

I have contacted them through Twitter to let them know my feelings (without the swearing). Doubt I’ll hear back though…

Will

*EDIT X 2*

So, they finally emailed today (a day to late) and the winner will be contacted on the 27th. Wish me luck.

Will