“Hello, Mike. Where have you been?”
Here’s exactly how I’m not going to tell you.
Last year, I had a little blogging routine. It went like this.
1. BLOGBLOGblogblogblogblogBLOG BLOG BLOG! BLOG!
2. Phew. *puts the kettle on*
3. *Spends a couple of weeks having various cups of tea and generally being bone-idle in that special, soul-refilling way we all need sometimes.*
4. Oh, look at my blog, sitting there neglected and lonely. Blog-No-Mates. And that’s my fault – all mine. I was doing so well, and then I went offline for a while and now…*cries*.
5. *Guiltguiltguilyguilt*…..
6. No, stop all this self-loathing moping, Sonny Jim. Sit up straight. Prove you’re worth your traffic. Man up. YES!
7. I know – I’ll show how amazingly useful I am to society by talking at length about all the things I’m planning to do shortly, but haven’t actually started yet. That’s *bound* to make me look good. Because if there’s one thing better than doing things, it’s talking about doing things. It’s like cashing cheques that aren’t yet written – and that may never be written! What it lacks in honesty it gains in feckless profiteering self-marketing. And I’ve been on Twitter – I know that kind of stuff works.
8. *Blogs about things not yet done, with pitiable self-deluding enthusiasm*.
9. *Pattern repeats every 3 months*
Now, I promised myself that this year, I wouldn’t be doing any of that. And I still don’t intend to, even though this post is skirting very close to the rim of all that malarkey.
So I won’t be telling you about all the things I’m currently writing or planning to in the near future. Ain’t done yet, hasn’t happened yet, don’t exist.
So where have I been? Giving myself a 12-day holiday from writing, and filling that vacuum with trips to Cambridge and London (currently being terrorised by blue elephants and giant pigeons – see above), reading tons of books, drinking gallons of wine and watching…er, acres of TV – and playing a number of hours of Mass Effect 2, a superbly written $100 million film masquerading as a computer game.
Oh, and last week, the sky caught fire.
(I’m blaming BP).
Now I have a week’s break from my dayjob – which is a chance to be a fulltime writer for a week. (Which is why I’ve given myself a “holiday” before my holiday. See? Planned laziness).
So – what have I missed?
(That’s code for “hey, it’s your turn now”).
Great pics and …rambling!
Why thank you.
Rambling is a passion of mine. See: my writing, editors who flinch when they see my name, etc.)
Just to give you something to do, Mike, have a look at the subjects of what you personally have posted over the past few weeks, say even 2 months. Not guest posts, but YOU! You are a clever clogs, aren’t you?
I know! There’s been literally
hundredsthere’s beenmanywell,I have to use all my toes and fingers to count how many…Well, there was that spoof fantasy story I
just wrotethat I reposted from a blog post years back.Um.
Well, anyway. Can I tell you about the really great things coming up? Because they’re coming up, and they’re really great. Total fact.
Yeah right. I thought you were coming in Italy this summer? Looking at the Orkney sky pic, I think you ought to.
That was the plan.
But I’m glad I didn’t, because my finances need to be put in order. Currently working on that.
As soon as it’s wise to do so, or at least less unwise, I’ll be leaping on the Eurostar.
And that sky? Pah. That’s Orkney being friendly. (Although I should add that Orkney gave me the second worst sunburn of my life, back in ’02.
fiiiiiiiiiiiinally pix of yours. SO VERY HAPPY you’re playing with your camera. i require more, please. thanks.
what i’ve been up to:
i’ve come to the harsh realization that despite my nationality, i hate baseball and american football and i have a very serious addiction to yelling at the tv during the world cup soccer matches. (btw, sorry about your loss this weekend, i’ve offered David Beckham comfort, he has not returned my calls, the jerk.)
i’ve put my camera down (actually, i forgot it at a friend’s house after the dismal US/Ghana game saturday), this is why i require you to take pix cus i seem to have lost my mojo.
i bought my ticket to spain for xmas and i’m flipping excited.
i’m talking to a DJ currently and i’m dying to let him spin my record.
that’s all.
‘Spin your record’? Steady. This is a PG-rated blog. (Well, maybe a 15).
(Well, maybe an 18).
Unless you meant that literally, in which case: you have a record?
I am indeed playing with the camera, slowly but surely. Nothing spectacular yet (if ever), because I’m still learning the basics. But I’m pointing it at things at long last, yes.
You’ve put your camera down? Then the world is broken. This is not how it’s meant to be. May the lord have mercy on us.
you are so dramatical. i love it.
i’m just not inspired right now with what i see thru the lens.
have you tried post-editting on picnik.com. that’s a total time-suck for you. you’re welcome.
I have a largely unused copy (as in legal copy) of Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 to play with, so your attempts to entrap me with yet another brilliant, life-sucking online image manipulation resource are doomed to failure.
Well….
One little click can’t hurt….
*goes to look*