"LET'S HUNT SOME ORC" Well that's that then. Notice given just waiting for a leave date now. Best email I got in response from yesterday's post: "You could always get a job in a cheese factory - you'd be guaranteed to hate cheese within a week and all that machinery is pretty exciting" Exciting cheese machinery - I never knew the world held such wonders. I have to admit that I had the occasional doubt regarding this move but those were soon dispelled by my typical Monday morning: 1. Put books out with titles like Even Eagles Need A Push 2. Put stickers onto the new Jilly Cooper novel - unfortunately these stickers did not read "Hack off the limbs of anyone who has come into contact with this book before the evil spreads like the buttocks usually plastered on the covers" 3. Watched in awe as our regular conspiracy nut came into the store screaming at the top of his voice down his mobile phone "Fuck off and join MI5 then you racist cunt. I know you work for the FBI". His mobile phone may have been a shoe. 4. Was handed a saliva dripping �10 note from the mouth of a customer who resembled a cave troll. 5. Was hit upon the head by the new Byron biography. After all that I was itching to leave after 4 hours notice. 4 weeks seems a long time. Good news. Rikki liked my Seuss inspired Brindled piece so it should be in the next issue. Bad news. I've done no writing today. The novel is in danger of stalling at the 10,000 word stage. The reason I'm behind today is that we just finished watching the extended version of Lord of the Rings. Bigger, better and funnier. And longer. Jess started watching the extras and is now in a Tolkien inspired coma. If Peter Jackson had directed Deep Blue Sea maybe people would have more respect for killer shark movies. Mike is blogging to: Consolidated