'But how Lee?' I hear you all shout, 'you are so good at writing, so funny and witty, how can it be difficult for you, this century's Oscar Wilde, to come up with regular posts of unequalled genius?'
First, thank you fans, you are too kind. But it's because right now I am working two jobs and it's tough to keep up the dynamic creative flow that you have got so used to. My first as you all know, is to be a babysitter for classes of Hungarian teenagers. This isn't the best job in the world, but I don't work hard and I don't think I really do my job properly (I have a new lesson plan, it's called 'playing outside'). My second job is more demanding - I am a copywriter for an online mortgage brokerage. I know, glamourous right?
I have to churn out hundreds and hundreds of 500-word articles about how great self-cert mortgages, offset mortgages, adverse mortgages and buy-to-let mortgages are. It pays the bills but it doesn't fire up my soul exactly.
And it's a good job. The guys who run the site are good guys, and I can essentially work in my underwear, which is living the dream. But it does mean at the end of the day the last thing I want to do is write more. I want to sit, eat and fall asleep. In that order. As a precocious artist I need to be constantly sucking the teat of creativity, not writing things like "with some good advice and some prudent saving you could find yourself the perfect mortgage".
But I will persevere. I have a few dazzling bon mots left before I pack up for a whistle-stop tour of Europe so stay tuned. Next time: Hungarians doing stupid things and looking miserable while they do it.
1 comment:
You can do it Lee, we believe in you!
(Ah, you already have - "Queing" is another stonker. May I add, somewhat geekily, is has the written version of the comic timing of Eddie Izzard? Check out his comments about queing from his Definite Article video. Truly lovely stuff. You resonate him in this piece. I am not gushing.).
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