Here is the Guest Post by CM that I promised. I'm so glad I invited him on my blog. Enjoy! xx
Charming Man’s Senseless Journey
I am indebted to Punya for offering me the
chance to write a few words on her wonderful blog. At the outset, she explained to me that she
rarely does author interviews, so she very much left the content of my post up
to me; and rather like the groom whispering in the ear of his best man on his
wedding day, she asked me not to make it too long!
During my university days, I shared a house
with ten fellow inmates, most of us engineers and natural science students. There was, however, one mature student
amongst us, who was studying philosophy and theology. He was a strange animal; he spent his days
with his nose in a book, seldom had any lectures and seemed to be having an
easy ride. I say that, because us techie
geeks had a most rigorous timetable, often attending over thirty hours of
lectures a week, on top of practical assessments and compulsory tutor
groups.Fast forward to the end of our final year and we’re all down the pub
celebrating the end of a gruelling week of exams that would determine our
future. The philosopher was already in
the pub, musing over the bitch of a final paper he’d been faced with that
morning. Surely nothing as complicated
as we’d been subjected to, we joshed, as we sipped our first pint. He sighed dejectedly and told us that the
paper comprised one question, which read: Write
a question and then answer it; a three hour paper and presumably he had to
show all his workings!
Clearly this story has stuck with me over
the years, but only now do I have a use for it.
Punya doesn’t want to interview me… (Punya rolls her eyes at that)
So I figured why not interview myself?
OK, I promise to try and make this quick!
