Tuesday

Another unhappily restless night features dreams inspired by Wonders of the Solar System. In the episode we watched last night, Brian Cox talked about the man-made probed launched in the 70s that is now billions of miles away and yet we can still pick up a faint signal from it. In my dream, this probe is manned - and beams back only the constant reminder that this man died years ago. Pretty horrible really.

The rest of the day is an improvement - at work we are given our passes for this year's London Book Fair at Earl's Court in April. This will be my third LBF since starting this job and its strange to see the passes come round each year. They all look the same and all remind me of the first one I was sent just before I started the job, when I was so excited I took a picture of it and emailed copies to my parents. The excitement's not really there any more, but the pass itself is an interesting milestone I suppose, marking me out as something of a veteran of the hungover-in-a-dusty-exhibition-hall-sweating-under-the-striplights scene.

Back at home I toy with the idea of writing an entry for Who Are Ya?! but decide to wait until Wednesday when I'll have a little more time and (hopefully) a little more inspiration in terms of a topic. I am also aware that as LBF approaches I need to start putting together a sort of pitch for my Big Book Idea. This will, I think, involve a few paragraphs pitching the idea, a list of chapter headings and where they will go, and at least 2 or 3 sample chapters pulled together from past Who Are Ya?! entries. I'm sure I can get this together in time and hopefully it'll be something worth taking a look at.

Instead of writing I sit down and play FIFA 2010 on the XBox until K gets home. We have dinner then watch the second Wonders of the Solar System and another episode of Mad Men, before catching a brilliant old episode of The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer on some digital channel or other.