Goodness, barely morning and so much done already. The first payment of the year has been agreed. A proposal for a website, written and dispatched. The house is spotless, despite the char coming tomorrow. The washing is on, the ironing scheduled, and I'm prowling the basement, waiting for my agent to call. Because I sent him the first 13,000 words yesterday. Part One of the new tome. Another four months and it could be done. Unless he hates it. Then it's back to square one. If this wasn't tense-making enough, last night I made the mistake of watching Big Brother. After an hour of Jade's bilious and chaotic outpourings, I was so tense my jaw had locked. I don't think she's a racist. She's just woefully ignorant. She has no parameters. Given her background with an addict for a mother, that's hardly surprising. It's extraordinary she's turned her life around at all. But money only confers comfort. It can't make up for a lost education, childhood neglect and social isolation. Jade may be rich, but she remains troubled and out of control. Because a hundred per cent improvement on zero is still zero. Shilpa will go on to greater glory and riches. As she deserves to. Jade, poor cow, has unwittingly been hoist by her own petard. That's one pictured alongside, in case you were wondering;-)
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Goodness, barely morning and so much done already. The first payment of the year has been agreed. A proposal for a website, written and dispatched. The house is spotless, despite the char coming tomorrow. The washing is on, the ironing scheduled, and I'm prowling the basement, waiting for my agent to call. Because I sent him the first 13,000 words yesterday. Part One of the new tome. Another four months and it could be done. Unless he hates it. Then it's back to square one. If this wasn't tense-making enough, last night I made the mistake of watching Big Brother. After an hour of Jade's bilious and chaotic outpourings, I was so tense my jaw had locked. I don't think she's a racist. She's just woefully ignorant. She has no parameters. Given her background with an addict for a mother, that's hardly surprising. It's extraordinary she's turned her life around at all. But money only confers comfort. It can't make up for a lost education, childhood neglect and social isolation. Jade may be rich, but she remains troubled and out of control. Because a hundred per cent improvement on zero is still zero. Shilpa will go on to greater glory and riches. As she deserves to. Jade, poor cow, has unwittingly been hoist by her own petard. That's one pictured alongside, in case you were wondering;-)
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Thank you:-) I'm on CNN tomorrow morning, talking about the Jade-Shilpa thing. Watch this space!
We are, in a very real sense, all guilty. When Jade got her opportunity we persuaded her that been rich was what is most desirable; not that been educated, polite, thoughful and kind was what makes the well rounded person. Money is the root of all evil, so please send yours to the Rev'd Gordon Brown, c/o The First Church of the Shriven Scotsman, Duntaxing, and he will make all your problems go away
I agree with you completely. One should also look at the person making the comments, the sort of woman who expresses affection with lines like 'I love you, you wanker'. Insult often replaces or doubles as endearment in profanity speak and the only way one can judge what is meant when the likes of Jade are communicating is from the tone, not the words:-(
Looking at and listening to Jade, that makes it much worse, doesn't it?
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