Cycling / Boasting

[radegund]

Cycling

Having availed of Glitzfrau's kind loan of her bike (while she's off cavorting with the Teutons) to convey myself to work this morning, I'm in a position to answer one of the great questions of our age: does glitzfrau's bike or niallm's bike have the more responsive brakes?

The answer, my friends, is [drum-roll] Glitzfrau's bike. Who'd 'a' thunk?

(And did I, for bonus points, discover this in a rather abrupt and precipitate manner? I did. No harm done, but it was ... surprising!)

Boasting

I got a phone call about an hour ago from a representative of the Italian Cultural Institute (ah, contacts...), who wants me to send him a piece for inclusion in a volume of short stories by young Irish writers.

So it looks like I'm going to be translated into Italian! How cool is that? (I say "it looks like", because such things don't always happen as expected.)

And I'm announcing it here in a bid to overcome my innate fear of success. Left to myself, you see, I'd curl up in a ball at this point and not do anything about the brilliant opportunity that has landed in my lap. (Because only things that I have not hitherto managed to do count for anything in the crazy world inhabited by the Inner Radzer. Reaching a milestone is primarily a reason to contemplate all the ongoing failures - notably the yawning gap on the shelf where my first novel should be... I'm serious - I'm squirming with embarrassment here. Ridiculous, but true.)

But now that all of you excellent people know about it, I really will have to send them the story. Won't I?

Comments

Only if...

[ailbhe]

... you'd rather not be loudly sneered at for rejecting chances. I doubt your fear of success is that enamoured of failure.

Brakes, physical and mental

[niallm.livejournal.com]

Hmm - must get those seen to!

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

Yes, you certainly shall. Translated into Italian! How cool is that!