The question
What thought won't let you sleep?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A long-running fixed question in The Guardian's weekly Q&A questionnaire.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Worry – I am a terrible worrier.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 April 2024 source ↗
Thank you notes I haven't written.
Unfinished work and caffeine.
All the things I ought to have done.
Perimenopausal anxiety, the terrible feeling of impending doom, something awful happening to my children, writing deadlines. Apart from that, I’m quite chilled.
I like to think that my friends, my auntie and my mum are up there having a big party and that I could join them.
Working in McDonald’s when I was 16. It was about 90p an hour. Because I was always late, they made me “trash walk” the length of Kentish Town high street and pick up the McDonald’s rubbish.
That I am still creative.
A radio presenter said I had yellow teeth – to my face. When I was 45, a manager in LA said I was too old to work in Hollywood; and then she rang my agent and said, “Can you tell your client never to wear that perfume again because it made me feel sick.”
Can I have more than three? Creative, kind, a grafter, engaging, loyal, fun and generous.
Bullying, flakiness, rudeness, lack of humility, being patronising and ungenerous.
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