The random project

Every so often one of those projects comes along.

The random project.

"What the hell is this?" you beg the cosmos, staring bewilderedly at your email. "Did they say [insert ridiculous random project here]? Wait—" Your eyes rake back across the pixels to the Sender field. "—who sent me this?"

For [ridiculous random project], you (or, more properly, I) might insert:

• wacky music festival program/me
• fantastical creative-writing direct email
• greeting card messages
• outrageous-interview-then-carve-the-quotes-up-until-unrecognizable copy job
• comparatively-normal-interview-then-meld-all-talking-into-annual-report job
• my-management-team-just-changed-the-business-model-I-need-you-to-rewrite-all-the-content job
• write-an-entire-book-as-someone-else job
• boardgames.

Yeah, that's right, I said boardgames. And you thought I was just mucking around.