Erin O'Connor
English model
Not reading my bank statements thoroughly enough!
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A long-running fixed question in The Guardian's weekly Q&A questionnaire.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
It’s usually a slight feeling that, having got through the day, I didn’t get any time to do any writing or something creative – it was a lot of admin, exhaustion from that and rumination.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 May 2026 source ↗
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My job. I want to get it right.
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My own snoring.
I worry a lot about how to juggle being a single parent and working – scheduling keeps me up at night!
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View profile →A running accident when I was 14 or 15. I fainted but I was a bit of a jester and they thought I was taking the piss, so I was left for a bit. I woke up in hospital.
Putting chocolate mousse in my agent’s face. Somebody had done it to me – that thing where they go, “Smell this, it smells funny”, and then they put it in your nose. A year later I was in this French restaurant with a very 1980s-style dessert trolley and, before I knew it, I had a bowl of chocolate mousse in front of me. And my agent went, “What’s that smell?”, and it felt impossible not to … I immediately felt awful and tried to apologise. He, of course, said that he found it funny. But I knew he didn’t.
Having regrets and not knowing what to do about them.
A movie. Does it have a name? It might do.
To be stuck in the past.
I’ve not always been great friend material. I’ve tried to get better at that, so to be remembered as reliable by a few would be great.
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