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May 24, 2005
Another End
Yay, I finished rewriting my book today.
It's a fantasy book I have worked and reworked for the past ... god, must be four years now. I mean that’s not ALL I was doing. I’ve done others things in that time as well, which include, in no particular order:
1) Been in a car that almost ran over an echidna, which was very scary for both us and him. If you’ve got to run over something, a living spikeball is not your best pick.
2) Not many breakfasts.
3) Some standup comedy.
4) Drugs.
5) Experienced a very faint ingrown toenail that I kept making and canceling doctor’s appointments over because it really wasn’t very bad and eventually went away of its own accord, but I really pissed off the receptionists in the meantime.
6) Gone to Thailand and played volleyball with Odi the crazy waiter/ladyboy who always made us feel guilty that his lessons in speaking Thai didn’t seem to rub off on us, and wouldn’t get us our damn food if we couldn’t say what it was. We were stoned all the time Odi, we could barely remember each other’s names! ‘Mat kow prah’ yourself! Sorry we didn’t mail you those gumleaves you wanted.
7) Gone through several cheese phases.
8) Become the owner of a murderous Bristlenose Catfish called Lurker, who the Pet Store Guy would not believe was capable of such crimes because Bristlenose Catfish are REKNOWNED for being benign community fish, even though I watched EVERY OTHER FISH IN MY TANK disappear into Lurker’s Tunnel of Terror, located just under the filter. Including an eel! Admittedly it was a wimpy little eel, but still. AND YOU OVERSTEPPED THE MARK WHEN YOU TOOK DR BUMBLES, LURKER! That was why I had to ‘let you go’.
So it’s been pretty action packed! But yes ... the book is finished, for the meantime. I wonder if a publisher will pick it up? Be at a bit of a fucking arse shit if it didn’t. Might as well have spent the last four years sowing fork warmers.
I upload it here to my private diary as a way of backing it up.
Posted by Sam Bowring at May 24, 2005 12:43 AM