“The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.”
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I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.
Air travel is the safest form of travel aside from walking even then, the chances of being hit by a public bus at 30, 000 feet are remarkably slim. I also have no problem with confined spaces. Or heights. What I am afraid of is speed.
Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops.
Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is 'fairy lights, ' which we boringly refer to as 'Christmas lights.'
