Unternehmen - Undertaking

My entries have been waning recently as my time has been dedicated to a different undertaking - attempting to be funny into a microphone in front of many handfuls of people in a darkened room. Or stand-up comedy. Last night I performed my second ever set and it went surprisingly well! I’m not one for blowing my own trumpet - if I could I’d never get any work done and you’d be staring a blank screen (zing!) - but I was adequately satisfied with my performance. It was of course less scary than my debut a month ago, but still quite a bizarre experience hearing genuine chuckles throughout the room, and on one or two occasions getting a full on belly laugh for something I’ve said. There’s a few things I wish I’d done differently, but it is all a learning curve and I’ll just know for next time! The most encouraging thing about it was that the funniest guy of the night came up to me at the end and dished out a ludicrous amount of praise, and his friends being genuinely shocked it was only my second performance ever. But anyway, I can’t continue this without sounding like a smug twat, so I’ll stop. The point is I am working when not writing these increasingly irrelevant articles, so for the historian attempting to piece together my formative years, I’m not spending all my time playing X-Box 360 games and watching South Park. And that’s not sarcasm. But that is.