Occupations

I think before I get any further I do need to establish what kind of jobs they have.

Lois is obviously a consultant. I feel it should be rebranding. Her great achievements involve us no longer thinking of sweets by their old names. Makes her very unpopular with people who loved Opal Fruits as she thinks of that as the pinnacle of what they do.

Toby is less successful. This is not a big deal. If anything the gap between their careers has diminished as he's doing better. At what? He's not a salesman. Although I quite like the idea that he does something which sounds really flash and glamorous but is revered in his office for just being solid and unflaky. Advertising. Yeah, I think that could work. (that way when they're trying to score drugs people can say he should be able to get hold of it. I like the idea that near the end he finds some and decides whether to take it. I think he should be a creative but for crap things like insurance.

And then Mark what should he study? It needs to be a book subject so he's got plenty of time. Languages? No, because he would have had to go abroad. I kind of want him to be studying Goffman and Garfinkel but I wonder if it would put grit in the comedic wheels. Alternatively he could be an historian of a time which seems wonderfully irrelevant. I'd like the idea of him studying the first 500 years of London. Maybe not even the first 500 years. Up to Hogarth.

I like that so half the streets in London he knows by reputation because he can tell you what Samuel Pepys did there or even earlier. So yes, he's studying the rise of London (between 1530 and 1605 the population went from 50,000 to 225,000). That's as part of the History MA at UCL looking at the Public Sphere in British History (1476-1800). Lots of coffee houses and back of a pub publications.