I worked in travel publishing for seven years. Overall it was great. I met fantastic people and for the most part the work was interesting and challenging enough. Despite this, I'm not really so keen to go back to the same job after I finish my year's maternity leave. I want to try something new. Knowing this, I spent some time the other night trying to think of what I've learnt over the last seven years that will translate to a new and exciting career. I couldn't think of much. However, I have learned that Greenland's polar ice cap is 3km thick and if it melts the world's sea levels will rise by 2m; Bulgarians shake their heads to mean 'yes' and nod to indicate 'no'; and Thailand is the only Southeast Asian nation never to have been colonised.
So, who wants to to give me a kick-ass, highly paid job in TV?
Anyone?
I know shit (see above).

This is what happened in my dream last night:

I was in an open space; like a dry, unmown public park, and I was shepherding a group of about 15 people out of the way of a small, aggressive rhinoceros (it looked about the size of a bushpig). I herded everyone into a large public toilet block and just managed to shut us all inside before the charging rhino used its horn to pierce the toilet door. Everyone escaped the public toilet and the rhino by climbing out a high window at the back of the block. No panic, no fuss really.

What on earth can that mean?

Why is it that now that I have all this time on my hands I can't make myself spend some time writing? I don't know.
By the end of the week I will post something substantial. In the meantime if anyone has any good suggestions for a boy's name I'd like to hear them. I'm totally stumped.

An open letter to Microsoft

Dear Microsoft,
Windows Vista is a piece of shit. I think I could design a better operating system and I don't know how to work the TV remote or programme the microwave.
I am very disappointed in you.
Sincerely,
Frustrated Home User