I’ll try and get back to a regular posting schedule next week. No promises, since I’m in London next weeked, working the weekend after, and in Cambridge the weekend after that.

Anyway, I’ve prepped Julia Can’t to submit to Take a Break. I was actually inspired to do so by My Weekly’s March/April guidelines. I almost emailed it to them, but I know it’s more of a Take A Break / My Weekly story. I’m finally happy with the ending, and it’s come in at 700 exactly.

In order to submit it I’ve spent half my evening fighting my printer. It’s the first time I’ve had it out the box since we moved. Turns out I packed the wrong cable with it, so half an hour went on finding the right cable. I still have no idea what the cable that was in the box is for. I got it all plugged in and it printed a page and a half before jamming. Sorted it out, but the computer then decided it was offline. Turned the printer on and off a few times, no luck. So I went to see Kickass (which is intense, and not a comedy, and very good). Came back, turned printer back on. Still apparently offline. Turned laptop on and off. It registered the printer as back online, and I got printing. Only the ink catridges haven’t been used in an age. It cut off the bottom half of the bottom line of every paragraph. To stop this in the end I started putting full stops in between the paragaphs and setting the font to white.

Now all I’ve got to do is get some more envelopes. I think it’s just my luck lately. Submitting takes longer than it ought.

Anyway, Easter was nice. I slept through most of it, got drunk, watched the original Quatermass Experiment, had some chocolate, and cooked a roast dinner at someone else’s house (if I’d cooked it at mine I’d have been annoyed by my mistiming, but at someone else’s house it’s not my fault!). Saw The 39 Steps, a comedic play based on the Hitchcock adaptation of the book, with four actors playing all the roles. Really worth seeing if you get a chance. Next week I’m seeing Ghost Stories, and then the last week in April I’m seeing The Secret of Sherlock Holmes. Busy busy!