Ambitions

At school on Friday an English teacher whose voice and mannerisms remind me of Andrew Lincoln asked me why I was training to be a teacher. I said, deadpan, "The starting salary and the holidays," before pretending I was joking and mumbling on about being in denial because my parents are teachers. I wasn't joking. And I'm hugely jealous of people who have a sense of vocation and follow it.

I wonder what I'd do if I didn't have to work . . .