Isn't one of the definitions of madness doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting a different result? Luckily I work in a job where no day's work is ever the same. Whether that means I'm not insane is another story, for another day. My point is that I have massive variety in my work life. Look at me rubbing your nose in it with my awesome job! I make no apologies for that either, you should be proud of your job, you should tell people how good it is... otherwise what's the point in having it, right?!
Last Thursday I got to run a Q & A, come book club, session with one of the best authors we have in NZ. Sarah Kate Lynch is a bit of a living legend. Now she's got a job with variety in it, she gets paid to travel to exotic/awesome places and write about them. One of her hats is being the Travel Editor for The Woman's Day. Jealous. Well, jealous of the job, not jealous of her working at a ladies magazine. I think that would kill me. By that I mean someone there would kill me cos I'd be constantly asking questions about silly things, like why do we need articles about a former weather presenters, friends, dogs best friend; a cockatoo that looks like Elvis Presley (note the exaggeration for dramatic effect)?! Though I'm not the target market, so I'm not supposed to get it.
Then there is her amazing fiction. She travels to these far off lands, puts herself in all of these weird and exploratory situations and comes up with fictional characters and a brilliant storyline. If you want proof, her latest release is called 'Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga', it's based in India and it spent its first 2 weeks of publication at No. 1 on the NZ Bestseller List.
Well done to Creative Tauranga for bringing her to the Bay. She said she's planning on coming back much more and it's beautiful. Nice to see we impress even the most travelled of the travel writers. Though she's not telling us anything we didn't know already, right?!
My favourite story on the night was how she met Hugh Jackman in a cinema in Queenstown and was so nervous when she shook his hand all she could say was 'I've lost my hairclip'. Haha. Bugger.