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On blogging!

“That was AWFUL,” MadFather says, walking in the door and shaking rain drops off his head.

“What happened?” I say from my bed on the sofa.

“I sat in traffic for HOURS,” he says, “and then I got there LATE so the security people chased me around the supermarket asking when I was going to leave.”

“Oh no,” I say, my heart twinging as it does every time MadFather turns on the sympathy.

“And then I couldn’t get the things on your list, I couldn’t find any nectarines so I thought to myself, ‘I know -’”

“Do you think like that?” I say.

“Like what?”

“Like, ‘I know, I’ll do this.’”

“Well – yes,” MadFather says, looking hurt. “Why?”

“Because this way my readers will know it’s not my dialogue that’s shitty.”

Update

*Breathes*

Well that was all very traumatic. Apparently my ftp password became corrupt! Who knows what it was doing – probably insider trading again.

Not being able to blog for two weeks was difficult. It made me think about how next year is going to be without a blog. I wonder what desperate measures I will come up with when the time comes; setting up a bulk email that goes round to let me vent all my blonde moments? Invent a fictional blog perhaps? Watch this space.

The past two weeks have been quite difficult. I got flu, which in hindsight I don’t think I’ve ever had before. I was incapacitated, and every time I got slightly better I spent the day coughing over the Companies Act which set me back another week. I eventually made it into college for a mock interviewing exam where I had so much lemsip I gave my client “near negligent” legal advice. Charming.

The real exam is tomorrow and whilst I’m still not right I am certainly functioning.

I have no done any Christmas shopping. I have however watched approximately 75 hours of A Place In The Sun when ill. Priorities.

MindReader and I are off to Paris a week on Wednesday. MindReader is difficult for me to write about. There is a certainty about him that I feel; a kind of gut feeling that I can’t quite write. Suffice to say he’ll be around for a while.

I think that’s everything! It’s nice to be back.

Whoring

I have finally convinced everyone around me to get a blog. Including, famous Old Tutor, who if you recall hosted a seminar about blogging wherein I had to speak about tampons, or something. And, who read my essay containing the word penis and can still look me in the eye.

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Clearing some things up

1. My hits have doubled in the past few days. You are all voyeuristic. And whoever you are, who googled, “is it true billygean and mike split up,” yes it is, but this is creepy.

2. Thank you for the post and the emails and flickr messages, amazon gift certificates. This is really rather overwhelming. I do not want to depart from the gumpiness of the blog-persona, but I am touched.

3. The Break Up is nothing to do with Awkwardness, or MindReader. These are characters.

4. I have been making extensive use of hot water bottles and vics vapour rub. I’m sure this is some kind of Freudian comfort. Also, I bought myself a selection of Easter cakes which I have been enjoying in the small hours with my essays.

5. I have been in the library since 9am.

6. When someone walks through the barrier with a book, it beeps, cutting right through beautiful Jeff Buckley on ipod. Why do you do this every 5 seconds, oh library people? Just don’t do it. Just don’t walk through the barrier with a book. IT IS NOT HARD.

7. I apologise if The Blog becomes a bit of a Revision Blog over the next few weeks. I honestly have nothing else to do. However, it’ll be fun to all learn the law together… won’t it?!

Yes, most women are like Bridget Jones

H rests her chin in her hands, after finishing her mammoth Man Story.

I sip my drink. “And by that, he means blowjob,” I say, nodding sagely.

Blowjob. Exactly,” H says, running her hand through her curls.

I laugh. “I could so tell the Internet about this entire conversation.”

“Don’t you fucking dare.”

Fuck

Hurrah, I am still in the running for National Blog Posting Month not really because I haven’t technically missed a day and SOMETIMES BLOG TWICE, but because I am famous, internet-wide, for swearing:

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Contact

billygean dot co dot uk at gmail dot com

For you know, nice emails. And book deals. And the like.

Book

I wrote a book last year. If you would like to publish it please do email me (address above)! Status: Draft two in progress. Deciding between title of In Victoria Square and The Quarter Life Crisis

Dramatis Personae

MindReader - boyfriend, putter upper, always knows what I'm thinking. Laughs at me a lot
MadFather - my crazy Dad
DoctorSister - overachiever, receiver of my many hypochondriacle phone calls
OldestFriend - helps me with painting, wrapping Christmas presents, and anything remotely creative
BestFriend - talks for hours with me about religion, death, marriage and why our faces are sometimes red
Octopus - MadFather's lodger, so-called because he is lanky.
Mush - Octopus's very nice dog.

Misc

I am on twitter but on a private account. To add me visit twitter.com/Billygean and send a request.

Flickr Photos

Company

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Party outfit

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Awards

Nominated for Best Humour and Best Health Blog at the Bloggers choice awards here