Contract! Which means I print it out, sign and initial it, and send it back via post today, and then my invoice for last month’s work can get processed! On today’s list of things to do was to pen and send off a firm and polite reminder that I had submitted the original invoice exactly one month ago, and had yet to see a contract that would enable that invoice to be acted upon.

I like not having to wave business terms in people’s faces. Business is business, but it’s rarely the contact who is the one holding things up, and it’s never fun to lean on them to get them to lean on the proper people.

Now I get to whip out my Official Contract Signing Pen, and look for an 8×10 envelope. And evidently refill my ink cartridge, because these pages are looking awfully pale…