Days without alcohol - 75 - three quarters of the way to triple figures. Though I went for a curry tonight and was slightly jealous of the beer that my friend was drinking. Well not jealous of the beer, that would be strange. I would much rather be me than a beer, especially one that was being drunk. I was jealous of my friend. It is in situations like this, where the mind associates an activity with a certain type of alcohol that this pointless quest becomes hardest. My tap water was very refreshing.
I have, as I predicted, put on weight this week and I don't suppose having a curry (especially after a posh business lunch at the Ivy) had helped. But maybe it's not such a bad thing to have the odd week here and there where I let myself go. I have at least so far managed to resist the Easter Eggs that have been taunting me at every turn. I have come close to falling. But so far chocolate remains untouched for almost a year and booze for two and a half months.
I could really do with a proper day off and a lie in, but things are way too busy. I had a meeting about a possible TV project at 9.30 this morning, then the aforementioned lunch at the Ivy (very disappointed that I didn't spot any celebrities so I could spend the hour or so gawping at them - David Mamet was in there one of the few times I came here) and then a quick dash home to record podcast number 4 with Andrew Collings. I felt a bit tired and full up and don't think I was on top form - maybe it's better to do these in the morning - but I think it's come out OK. Luckily Collings was full of dull stories about his life and opinions, so we filled the time up, dotting around between subjects, with genuinely very little idea about where we were going next. See what you think by
listening here and do try and keep us crawling up the charts at iTunes. We have slipped a little. I only want to get ahead of Nuts and there's some good stuff objectifying women as sex objects in our podcast, so do make sure you tell your Nuts reading friends to download us. I am presuming none of you actually read Nuts. I hope not. If you do, then I will have to ask you to make a choice. It's me or Nuts. You can't have both. It's time you made a commitment. And also time you stopped reading Nuts.
Andrew wants the podcast to go weekly, mainly I think because he wants to stay flying high in the iTunes charts. I think we probably will do so. I can actually fit one in next Friday morning before I head off to Cardiff to do my DVD record (Sold out I am afraid). As long as the news keeps happening, we can keep waffling about it in an ill-informed and slightly distasteful way.
