Can someone call or Skype me at around 12:30pm BST?

[Ben Paddon]

That’s 4:30am my time. My Skype handle is Squirminator2k, and all Skype calls are routed to my mobile phone if I’m not currently signed in.

I trust none of you will, uh, abuse this power.

The reason being – and as it’ll be early I may be grumpy, so you might need to remind me – is because of this wonderful timeline:

• I have to get up at 4am. I’ve set my alarm but chances are I will either sleep through it or hit snooze Forever.
• The latest I can realistically get up is 4:30am. This leaves me half an hour to have a shower, shave, and pack.
• At 5am I will hop on my bike and cycle to North Hollywood Metro Station, which is about an hour away.
• At 6am, or 6:15am depending on how busy it is and/or how tired I am, I get on the train to Hollywood & Vine.
• At 6:30am/6:45am, I get off at Hollywood & Vine, and cycle to Paramount Studios on Melrose.
• I sign in at 7am, and spend the day pretending to be a High School student.

Considering my current financial predicament, this has to happen. I literally cannot afford to miss this gig.

I only need one volunteer. If you don’t have Skype, or you can’t get somewhere you can access Skype, then I have a UK-based phone number which is lined to my Skype account. Tanya has that number, and it’ll only cost you however much it costs to call 0208 numbers. You can get it off her.

Sorry to be a pain.

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[JamesTC]

Prediction – 126 Missed Calls.

[Jawscvmcdia]

I’d better abuse this power, brb

[Ben Paddon]

Marleen very kindly woke me up this morning. Which was fantastic.

[Ian Symes]

Did she cook you breakfast?

[Joey TORDFC]

Sorry, you live in fucking HOLLYWOOD? I was 40% sure that was a made-up place.

[Ben Paddon]

I live in Sunland, which is north of Hollywood.

[Monkeynuts]

Sunland? Wow.

[Carlito]

Sounds like a theme park.

[Ben Paddon]

Sunland isn’t really that great. It’s, y’know, a place to live.

[Jawscvmcdia]

Sunland? Is it a place that has sun?

[Seb Patrick]

You know, it’s the one next to Newtle.

[Ben Paddon]

For those of you who are curious, here’s how my schedule actually unfolded yesterday.

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