Define Action?

I was going to post something about my not being jobless and the common unprobability of my continued survival.

Also (maybe unfortunatly), the almost certaintude of my continuing at this job (barring any sudden HUGE drop in skill) for quite sometime as the other news and feature writer is leaving and I would imagine that keeping me around rather than making themsleves 100% writer free is the company's prefered course of action.

Anyway, was going to say all that but:

I set fire to a potato. With a microwave. It was potato coloured on the outside, and toasted black at the heart. Also there was a very great deal of smoke. Action was lept to. More or less.

It's emergencies like this where you learn what kind of man you are. So while everyone else fled the kitchen as the air turned grey and unbreatheable I carried the smoking potato-rock to the sink and drowned the bastard. Then turned on the extractor fan. Then put my beans in the microwave. As the fire alarm went off and others left to shut up the siren, I got some bread and fired up the toaster - if baked potato is outthe window (or technically underwater) I guess beans on toast is the only remaining dinner option.

Who am I?

I'm Doug (not Spiderman)

Work...

How do you know things about what you do?
How do you know if it's right for you or wrong for you?
I guess it's guess you just have to know one way or the other.
But even then you don't have to act on that
One of the (many) things I like to see myself as is Wile E. Coyote, not because of cunning or relentlessness or the many other fine qualities; I'm the foot stuck in a loop of rope dragged behind the giant rocket boucing along the ground before I hit a cliff face, expode and then get smashed by a falling rock Coyote.
It always seem like I'm about to be splatted/exploded/crushed, but, not yet.
I guess the better side of me keeps us going regardless.
Hooray (for now)

Q&A

You know what I haven't done in a long time?
Odds are that every answer you came up with is correct.

I have done very little besides work and sleep for a good long while now, and it looks like that's going to continue or a while longer.

But not to despair!
It may be the darkest hour or many hours before the darkest hour, but Captain Doug does not despair.
It's going to take some growth before I'm a decent News and Features Writer, but all I need is the appropriate montage music and this will pan out, I'm sure. Seems like time to put my ipod on random and wait for destiny.

But it's not all waiting here in Cambridge... oh no!
I'm out and about doing my best to meet interesting people and foxy ladies. Foxy and interesting - a deadly combination.
Course, being utterly wingman-less at the moment and having no idea where to start looking I'm mostly reading comics on Parkers Piece and um... waiting. Damn. So not quite proactive on reflection.

Ah, but you see there is no situation so bad that Captain Doug cannot make seem far better by refering to himself in the third person. Hooray!