So here I am once again blogging about the fortnight where I hope to be in employment, or at least very close. Last week this didn't go too well so I decided to roll things over to this week hoping that I can end on a high and not another rejection.
This plan has so far been working masterfully in that I have been asked too apply for a job (always a good sign) and I've had a meeting which has given me three very interesting projects to work on. These projects may never come to anything, but I feel like I have a purpose. I feel as if I don't need to blog every day in order for me to think I'm doing something useful.
I have however reached a sticking point of a kind unfamiliar to me. I have plenty of work to do, I'm just held back by an itsy-bitsy detail. This detail is becoming my nemesis and I will not move on until I have bettered it. Normally I don't give you too many deets, principally because I realise how uninteresting they are. On the odd occasion I do (my babysitting debacle is a prime example, but that really was quite entertaining, especially if you weren't there and didn't have to deal with it).
In this situation, for you all to better understand my plight, I will share with you some details. I'm looking for a pirate name. Long John Silver and Blackbeard have both been taken; Calico Jack was shotgunned many years ago; Captain Jack Sparrow I believe has also appeared here and there, all of which narrow the field quite dramatically.
The best I could come up with was Cannon-Fodder Davies and 'Cutlass' Joe Jones. These are passable, but they are not majestic enough for the pirate I'm trying to name. Yesterday I trawled the internet looking for inspiration. I Googled famous pirates - I even sunk to the depths of putting lots of different names into a 'Pirate Name Generator' to see what would come out. I was desperate.
I'm going to give myself until this evening to come up with something plausible and then I'm going to move on. Granted I'll move on kicking and screaming, but move on I will. It annoys me that now I have stuff to do that's potentially really worthwhile, but I've hit a stumbling block and it's preventing me from doing my best work.
Having said all of that, it's a lovely predicament to have compared to what I have been enduring in te form of a modern adaptation of Waiting for Godot. What makes this worse is that you can't even put on modern adaptations of Waiting for Godot because of the Beckett clause. Not only was I incapable of producing my own literature decent enough for people to take notice, but I was ruining the stuff we had already.
So if a troublesome pirate name is all I have to deal with, I've not done to badly.
Ha-harrrr!
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