How do you know if you're worrying too much? How can you mend a broken heart? Does peaking at school

ruin you for life? I'm Susie Ruffle, a stand-up comedian, and someone who has always experienced

anxiety. And I've written a book. Am I having fun now? Considering some of life's big questions,

featuring bonus insights from the likes of Charlene Douglas, Sarah Pascoe, Elizabeth Day and Dolly Auditon.

Am I Having Fun Now? Is out now in with me, Susie Ruffle.

And me, Tom Allen. Hi.

Hi, how are you, Tom?

Well, I'm good. Thank you, Susie. I feel a sense of, you know, great renewal at this time of year. Do you feel that like the kind of sense of going back, going back to school, of course, for a lot of people, younger people, young people. Me. Of course, yes, I'm looking forward to. Year nine. Yes, I still feel like I am in year nine or maybe year ten, but nothing more than that.

Do you feel like you've done your options?

I feel like I've chosen my options and I'm hoping they're going to work out all right. Yes. But what I made the mistake of doing, I didn't know if you did ever do this, but I chose an option that I felt I should choose rather than the one I wanted to do in the form of we had to do a technology at my school.

Would what? but I chose an option that I felt I should choose rather than the one I wanted to do in the form of we had to do a technology at my school. Would work for you? Well, I chose electronics because I thought, someone was like, that's the more academic one. You should do that. I was like, okay, I'll do electronics. Could you have done home technologies? Well, and then Mrs. Min mean, I was like, I'm not sure I've made the right

choice here. Maybe food tech was my way. And then in the end, Mrs. Miller just sent for me. And she said, just get him to come here. You're doing food technology. And I was like, great. Never happier. Never happy. My favorite subject. Yeah. My favorite subject. Yeah, of course. What sort of things did you make?

Well, you know, in food tech, it's funny because of course. What sort of things did you make?

Well, do you know, in food tech, it's funny because it's not as sort of cookery based. Well, it is. You want it to be. But it wasn't like a cordon bloor cooking school. It was lots of like. What, not in Brumley? Not in, yeah, I know. In the 90s. In the late 90s. in a school.

It wasn't a nice mug.

There you go.

Thank you.

I had,

I had four of them for the listener. They're crabs. There's one crab on one side and then there's a smaller crab on the other side. We had lots of them. We had fish. We had a shark. We had lots of them. Tom, who do you think broke all of them other than this one?

You?

Yes.

Did you take them into the garden or something?

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