Dennis sent me a message this morning asking me what I do. I think it came about because of seeing Pete’s comment about me using the term ‘corporate whore’ to describe myself. I use the term with my tongue planted firmly in my cheek as a metaphor for someone who has sold her soul to the devil in as much as I work cripplingly long hours for wads of cash doing a job that is in equal measures pure pleasure, frustration, stimulation and irritation.

Other days I describe myself as the girl from no-where with equal conviction – then I’m thinking of my roots. A terrible ‘Forces brat’ (as Simon Kirk once described it)education of way too many schools (I think 14 in 10 years though my sister will probably say it’s 12 or 15 and be able to reel off all their names) in way too short a time, no qualifications and only a rock-solid determination to get me to where I am.

It got me thinking about what I do and I remembered something from a long time ago. A young man (who is now a very senior client), who was at the time the product manager for a famous brand of haemorrhoid cream, was wearing a tie with bunches of grapes on it and telling me they represented the haemorrhoids his brand was designed to treat. He’s gone on to bigger and better things and is now the Marketing Director of his company and I have too.

I told Dennis that I might be researching haemorrhoid creams one day and HIV or AIDS the following day. That is true. Today I’ve done a strange mix of different types of project (from baby food to smoking) and tomorrow it’s schizophrenia. It really is different each day.

Making the comment about haemorrhoids reminded me of a wonderful photo by a chap called Alfred Stieglitz, which can be seen here. Well they say imitation is the greatest form of flattery - or alternatively you could say plagiarism rules!

There it was, I was inspired! Thank you Dennis for making me think about haemorrhoids……and reminding me of the grapes story that got me to this photo! Cool. And what’s even better…..I have a plan for tomorrow!!!