Friday

There's a sense of Things Happening today as I take the plunge and fire off an email to The Publisher to sort out a meeting at London Book Fair to discuss my book idea. Happily he says he'd be pleased to meet up with me so we set a time on the first day of the Fair. This is good - it means I now have a solid deadline to get my pitch and two or three sample chapters together. I'm thinking now that it would be to start with a jumping-off-point-type subtitle of "Things to Love About Modern Football" and then work from the resulting list.

It's all very exciting that I'll be able to put this in front of a sports publisher in three weeks or so having had it bouncing around in my head since the middle of last year. Hopefully I'll be able to make it convincing and interesting and maybe even a bit funny - I'm planning to make some time tomorrow or Sunday to start assembling things.

More good news today is that it's payday so after work me and the girls head to the Duke of Edinburgh for a quick drink. It's felt like a bit of a long week and it's nice to be at the weekend again with a chance, for me at least to have quite a quiet one. After a hasty pint I head home, stopping at Sainsbury's to grab some wine for K and her sister and pick up a wee Easter egg for each of them (because I'm nice like that) and a frozen pizza to take on board before heading to the Queens in Crouch End to meet Will and Nick.

It's a good night chatting away about football and new jobs and films and getting drunk on aeroplanes and flying business class and various other topics. It's also nice to spend some time in male company having seemingly had a few weirdly girly nights out lately (and, of course, working as the only man in an otherwise all-female department at work).

I get home shortly after midnight feeling rather content, having listened to Born Like This by DOOM very loudly on the iPod on the way back from the pub.