Day Nineteen :: Audacity

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A couple of hours ago I sent an audacious pitch to Time Out magazine. I haven’t heard anything back as yet, and if my experience of pitching editors is anything to go by, I probably won’t. But I don’t care. I refuse to take it personally. (Or I try at least.) And I’m glad I was audacious. Because I am audacious.

I met a couple of new Italians on Tuesday night and one of them said to me after a ten minutes’ conversation or so: ‘Sei un pó particolare. Si vede.’ It means, roughly, ‘You’re a bit special. It’s obvious.’ And, just as in English, it can be taken either way. Special as in interesting, or special as in needs. Either way, I’ll take it. Because I am special. In every sense.

My iTalki video is also un pó particolare, and I’m glad about that too. Today I tried a few things – including exporting to Garageband and also, funnily enough, to Audacity – to try and clean the sound up, but in the end I gave up and just added in a few more explanatory subtitles. Here it is if you’re keen…

Then I filled in the rest of the application to be hosted on the iTalki site. Apparently you have to wait for as much as 10 days for a response, which seems like a long time, but so be it. Tomorrow is my last day of formal training – in the timetable I designed myself. I’m going to spend it reading up on copywriting. (I spent a few hours reading up on SEO writing by the way, and I came to the conclusion that it is not for me. NO COMPROMISE!)

Then on Monday I’ll be up at 6 and concentrating predominantly on finding work. Finding work and making money. Without compromise.

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Everything you ever read about living well advises you to be yourself.

Sometimes it’s a struggle. Usually it’s a struggle when you’re trapped in some situation – often a job or a relationship – that suffocates you. I’m thankful that I’m free. I’m also more determined than ever to be true to myself and to convert that lack of compromise into a good and prosperous living.

And tonight I’m going out to a thing. There will be wine. Even if I have to take my own. Which I will. Sometimes there’s a thin line between audacity and alcoholism.

That’s all I have.

Until tomorrow.

 

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