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Monday 14th March 2016

Mainly doing stuff for myself today. Bookmaking, typesetting. Sorted payment for writing marathon room hire at lunchtime. Jenni was here till late afternoon. I walked round to the bus stop with her and was surprised how nice it was outside. Pity I had to go back and do paperwork. Would like to get out on a bike or my longboard. Although at present my knees are saying otherwise. Lots in the newsfeed about cuts to disability payments. Obviously to call certain politicians cunts in a public forum might get you into trouble. Not much to prep this week. Going to be home tomorrow evening so I’ll chip away at stuff. Living on little money this year. 11.03 pm.

Tuesday 15th March 2016

Read loads of Reckless Chants 22 by Jessie Lynn McMains on the long, long ride back from Durham to Moorside. Some cracking punk rock stories in that big zine. This evening I got the work together for a little Waddy Colour your Life pamphlet anthology. Almost out of toner again. Hands playing up with RSI again. Not much food. Well, there is, but I want cakes and pasties, but it’s all eggs, tuna and porridge, bread and peanut butter. Chuffed to be almost done with official paperwork. I’m going to be working on Anomalies and Laughter to Split Glass in a couple of weeks. Got some mint quotes for the website. Well chuffed! 11.16 pm.

Wednesday 16th March 2016

Luxury to have another day mostly to work on my own stuff. Pretty great evening session. Morning Pages, Fortune Cookies and Triolet – not what I’d planned, but a few people were absent so no point doing booklet editing without them. Nice to hear back from Jessie this evening. Her zine workshop went well. If it hasn’t been for the slight problem of 3,751 miles I may have considered going along. Worked up more notes for tomorrow coz some of tonight’s was done at Mind last week. Been eating too many nuts and raisons today. Just because they’re only 150 calories a bag doesn’t mean you should snack through two bags a day. Probably better than cake though. Wrote a 750+ word email voicing concerns about certain sessions when I got home. Hopefully things will pick up. Ok, before my head pops… 11.04 pm.

Thursday 17th March 2016

Session at Mind went well this morning. Readbacks of previous works, reflection notes and a bit of terza rima. After lunch I came home and read the Henry Rollins LA Weekly column – more obsessive rare vinyl collecting on his globe trotting. Jenni's here for a few days. Ate a third of the biggest pizza that's ever been in my oven. A peperami meat fest thing. Jenni loved it but I prefer the frozen Tesco chicken and sweet chilli. I've not read much today. Going to get my website sorted this weekend and promote it week. TV on now. Jonathan Creek. A bit slow. And I'm dog-tired. 11.00 pm.

Friday 18th March 2016

Bit of a lie in this morning. Apart from a couple of Wednesdays and a couple of gigs I'm at home for a month. It was good to get some work done on the website. A few more tweaks to the ‘writing’ section and it'll be good to go. Jenni had a little read of the website and says it's good. Thanks to all the people who gave permission to use quotes. I sent a whole load of info off to the college as requested and hopefully it will be enough to secure a new course next month. Keyed in some notes and read a few articles. Good to hear some vintage JibbaJabba from the first birthday party recorded in 2011 at the Trent. I liked those dark anarchic nights. 10.55 pm.

Saturday 19th March 2016

I switched the water heater off by mistake and now we're running late. Jenni is doing the door for Paula Varjack' s show at Alphabetti Theatre this evening. I've been working on the website again. Was asleep on the bus to Newcastle and now just had an eat4less: chicken and bacon baguette with fries and apple Tango. Jen is at the venue. I'm off to HMV or Waterstones for a while. It's really fucking cold outside. 6.26 pm.

Sunday 20th March 2016

Bit of a promo work day. Got the site finished off and a link up on Facebook with a photograph of me from 32 years ago. Got a couple of morning pages entries keyed in but have slept a lot. Eaten too much and read very little. Been out for lightbulbs and made a meal for me and Jenni. Pen and Teller was good but I fell asleep during Thirteen. Bigly work day tomorrow. OK. 11.13 pm.

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