Random whinges

New clients, if I send you an estimate of the time I need for a writing project, based on what you have told me about the project, then I would prefer that the contract you send me based on that estimate doesn't include extra work that you have never before mentioned. Because actually, I am not a charity. And it's RUDE. (This has happened to me twice in the past week. )

Authors, if you are writing a book set in the future, please don't explain what's happening as if the characters know they are writing/being written about for people from the past. Because seriously, do people today say things like I got in the car, a wheeled machine that runs on a new-fangled fuel source called petrol, to go to the supermarket, a large store where you can buy all sorts of things? No, they do not. So be intelligent, and write in a way in which we can imagine the future. We're quite smart, we'll figure it out. Really.

Body, sometimes my brain needs chocolate. Just a little piece, like this afternoon. So it would be nice if you didn't react with itching skin, and even better if you didn't erupt in large, painful cysts. OK?