I'm breaking my vow too early, but when I go quiet I will go quiet.
I intend to chronicle the first 18 years of my life in book form over the first 6 months of next year. I will post, but want to get away from using that language here, as I think that is perfect for a book. There is a certain style I am looking to emulate.
Last edited by Gandalf; 12-26-2013 at 04:18 PM.
Having just been voted off the site for good, I should do that. In shock really. Off I go.
What does he mean voted off the site for good, he and I just became buddies, I feel abandoned.
Do not let success go to your head and do not let failure get to your heart.
shame on all of you. Gandalf and I just became friends after some turbulent times. Did any of you think of me as you rushed to get rid of Miles. Maybe I'll go zero dark thirty on your asses, then how will you feel.
Quite serious on the book idea. My upbringing is very Oliver Twist and would put to rest some of the notions that I was middle class. Seeing as I have given up sharing anecdotes on here already, it is best to use them as the basis of a series of books. The first would be from rags to nail polish.The story of a poor child jumbled, city to city, never having any stability, eventually moving half way across the country to a different universe where people spoke like Geoffrey Boycott. They put down family dog, the parental breakup, the homelessness, the eventual house where baby sister gets the big bedroom and me the tiny box, school absenteeism because of misery, made up illness to avoid school. Such a heartbreaking tale of hopelessness, but then eventually he discovers rock and roll and wears black nail polish to an economics class where he is called up to draw a diagram on the board. Whatever, will happen at this juncture? Some of the anecdotes could be very funny, but will I have the commitment, dunno, but I certainly have the time.
This is something I have been genuinely thinking about. It's just about what to work on first. A friend suggested that 'The anonymous guide of why to never to teach in a Korean University' would be great. It would just be a reworked version of the email rants I sent him over the past two years. Together, it must be at least a novelette. He says it's very funny, in an eccentric way, but it's the honesty that holds it together. He knows as he has been in the country's tertiary sector too.
I have other ideas too, and will either tackle some, focus on one, or do bugger all.
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