I just got up for a walkabout for the first time after sitting at my desk working non-stop for 6 hours and 3 minutes. I wonder if I can sue UCL when I develop deep vein thrombosis? My thighs and lower back are now a mess thanks to my self-enforced immobility. My stomach, too, is a mess, owing to the fact that I only had time to bring a measly sandwich with me today which did not do the old hunger-satisfaction thing.

Tomorrow I leave the house at 5:30 am to join the motley queue of WWE (née WWF) die-hards forming outside HMV on Oxford Street, because the first 500 people to buy the 3-DVD box set chronicling the career of wrestling legend Bret “Hitman” Hart will get to meet the guy at 6:00 pm that evening - an opportunity I simply cannot pass up.

A similar event took place at Hamley’s last year, featuring current WWE wrestler Big Show. I felt pretty clever catching an early (for me, a student bum at the time) tube at 10 am for a 2 pm signing, only to find about 1000 die-hards queuing ahead of me, over a hundred of whom had done so overnight. Suffice to say I didn’t meet him. I did, however, find a place to grab some breakfast, followed by several beers at a pub off Carnaby Street. Then I waited by the staff exit at Hamley’s to get his autograph on the way out. It was a great (albeit slightly stalkerish) idea, except I wasn’t the only one to think of it. In fact, I think every 4-child family within the M25 perimeter had thought of it and descended like locusts when he made his appearance. Big Show came out and shook everyone’s hand, but only had time to pose and sign autographs for the kids in attendance (the snivelling little shits) and bugger off. C’est la vie.

My internet with Newnet is activated on Tuesday, allegedly. Woo!

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