Tales from Alcatraz

I woke up this morning with a blinding headache. I think I must have been dehydrated from yesterday. I had no breakfast, crackers for lunch, plantain chips on my way home from work and dinner when I got home. I think I only drank 2 glasses of water yesterday considering all the crackers I ate for lunch and the plantain chips. I must drink more water. I try but I really do not like to drink. I know it's good for me but I don't thirst.

Now I also woke up with an idea. This writing dream of mine. When will it happen? How do I begin, what should I write on. I am talking about the book I have been dreaming of writing since I was a kid. A novel would be tough for me knowing that I get bored quite easily or should I say I like to work on a variety of things as opposed to doing one thing for a long time. Hence my reason for preferring HR Consulting to HR Management people always ask me what the difference is and I say one is external and the other is internal. As a consultant, you are not necessarily an employee of the organisation although you could be, you work on projects for your clients, you work with their management and the affected teams. As HR Management you are part of Management, you are an employee of the organisation, you manage the HR department and carry out day to day and HR related projects yourself or with the aid of a consultant. I have been both. I prefer being a HR Consultant. HR Management drained me. It was like being a mother before my time. My boss would say 'I am the daddy and you are the mommy' and I hated when he said that and I would retort 'I am no one's mommy'. How could I be mommy to kids the same age as me. Oooh there were times I really needed a mommy myself:-)

So back to the crux, the idea right? Now since we have agreed that the novel idea may not work because of my consultant profile, i.e. the need to work on a variety of things. I have always been comfortable with the idea of writing a collection of short stories. The upside for me is the gratification that would come from completing each story rather than waiting till the end of the novel. So I thought 'Tales from Alcatraz? What do you think?

Now I thought I could write about Alcatraz aka Prison aka boarding school. The stories will revolve around my experiences in boarding school. Do you think it would fly? I figured that if I was to embark on this project I would have to take a trip to Owerri where the school was to boost that memory of mine. My memory isn't that great but I have found that certain things have just stuck about those days. Even as I type I have memories of the school gate, the classrooms, the biology lab, the farm, the staff quarters, the assembly, the quadrangle... oh boy so many of them. So what do you think? Do you think it will fly, fly fly?

I am already laughing in my mind gosh I am somewhat excited. The things I can remember are exciting me. So what do you think, what do you think, WHAT DO YOU THINK???