...but only one until my birthday. I'm going to be turning 27 in just under 9 hours. It's a relatively cool age to be and puts me in such esteemed company as Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse.
The majority of the day will be spent sat in my mum and dad's house, thinking about anything other than looking for a new job. I might even crack open the Scholl Pedicure Foot Spa, including 9 piece nail care set, that I was bought as part of my leaving gift two weeks ago from my first job after university.
If my next blog post isn't a review of said foot spa, then my mum probably stopped me from using it for fear of getting water on the carpet.
Until recently I'd been an Account Manager for the digital creative agency Nonsense, based in London. After 3 years in various roles at the company, the foot spa came about because I said I wanted one for Christmas to my brother, also at Nonsense, and I think our office manager overheard. When I look back on it now I probably didn't want one for Christmas at all.
I've left both my job and income to try and forge a career as a comedy writer and to win the Lotto. Neither has happened so far, although this blog at least gives me the opportunity to take some early steps into writing and I have purchased Lotto tickets up until the end of January.
I've also started reading books for the second time in my life, as I completely stopped somewhere between the ages of 16-26. If, like me, you've left your job to pursue a career in comedy writing and are reintroducing yourself to books, may I recommend 'Writing Sitcoms' by John Byrne & Marcus Powell, as well as the first chapter of 'Writing TV Scripts' by Steve Wetton, which is all I've read of that one so far.
Without wanting to dwell too much in my first blog post, it might be worth mentioning that my hobbies include doing well in Fantasy Football, listening to music that was generally created between 1970-1997 and thinking. My dislikes aren't as long as I'm pretty easy going, however I do hate people who don't like me.
In terms of a claim to fame, the only thing that springs to mind is that I was interviewed in The White Horse pub in Soho the night of the Apollo Theatre ceiling collapse. It was hard to give an accurate account of the incident as I hadn't been to the theatre that night. The interviewer seemed to be writing in short hand, which led me to suspect he wasn't writing anything I was saying. I signed off my interview with the name Simon Dogbreath, pronounced Dog-breathe, but I don't think he wrote that down. To this date I've not seen anything appear in a paper, local or national.
Hopefully what you've just read will be the first of a number blog posts I do. If it isn't then I've either forgotten to do another or joined those who are in the 27 club.
The Difficult Second Blog Post... >>
The majority of the day will be spent sat in my mum and dad's house, thinking about anything other than looking for a new job. I might even crack open the Scholl Pedicure Foot Spa, including 9 piece nail care set, that I was bought as part of my leaving gift two weeks ago from my first job after university.
Until recently I'd been an Account Manager for the digital creative agency Nonsense, based in London. After 3 years in various roles at the company, the foot spa came about because I said I wanted one for Christmas to my brother, also at Nonsense, and I think our office manager overheard. When I look back on it now I probably didn't want one for Christmas at all.
I've left both my job and income to try and forge a career as a comedy writer and to win the Lotto. Neither has happened so far, although this blog at least gives me the opportunity to take some early steps into writing and I have purchased Lotto tickets up until the end of January.
I've also started reading books for the second time in my life, as I completely stopped somewhere between the ages of 16-26. If, like me, you've left your job to pursue a career in comedy writing and are reintroducing yourself to books, may I recommend 'Writing Sitcoms' by John Byrne & Marcus Powell, as well as the first chapter of 'Writing TV Scripts' by Steve Wetton, which is all I've read of that one so far.
Without wanting to dwell too much in my first blog post, it might be worth mentioning that my hobbies include doing well in Fantasy Football, listening to music that was generally created between 1970-1997 and thinking. My dislikes aren't as long as I'm pretty easy going, however I do hate people who don't like me.
In terms of a claim to fame, the only thing that springs to mind is that I was interviewed in The White Horse pub in Soho the night of the Apollo Theatre ceiling collapse. It was hard to give an accurate account of the incident as I hadn't been to the theatre that night. The interviewer seemed to be writing in short hand, which led me to suspect he wasn't writing anything I was saying. I signed off my interview with the name Simon Dogbreath, pronounced Dog-breathe, but I don't think he wrote that down. To this date I've not seen anything appear in a paper, local or national.
Hopefully what you've just read will be the first of a number blog posts I do. If it isn't then I've either forgotten to do another or joined those who are in the 27 club.
The Difficult Second Blog Post... >>
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