THE 'AGE' SHORT STORY COMPETITION

- Closing date for the Age short story competition is 5pm, Friday 8 October.
- Entries must be 3000 words or less and unpublished.
- First prize is $3000 and the winning stories will be published in the Age and online.
- Entries must be typed (double-spaced) on A4 paper and will not be returned, author details should be submitted on a separate page.
- Entries should be sent to the Age Short Story competition, 250 Spencer St,Melbourne VIC 3000 or emailed to shortstory@theage.com.au.
- Faxes are not accepted and children's stories are not eligible.

Hmmm... That'd be an interesting little project, if I had the time. Three thousand words? How many pages is that double spaced? Maybe...

Anyway yes. I've been slack again. Actually fuck that off, I've been busy. The combination of long work hours, classes & five trips to the gym every week is taking its toll on my timetable. Add to that an inkling of a social life and I have pretty much no time left during the week.

I'm doing this.

I was in a real cunt of a mood when I came home today. A string of bad-news phone calls contributed to a pretty nasty headache by early afternoon, and then I realised that I'd lost my travelpass just two days after buying it and would have to buy a new one ($32). So yeh I was feeling pretty bleh and decided to walk out at 5:00pm and head to the gym for a good workout and a long cardio session (just over two hours in total). After that I felt a hell of a lot better, had some dinner, wound down a little, logged in to work email and finished a few things... then wrote all this shit up.

Now it's time for bed.

CHOW.