So where have I been this time? As I’m sure most people who’ve read this blog before realise, I don’t really exist much outside of work during December. Peak season — let’s not call it Christmas, that’s a joyous time of year and my favourite time of year, let’s not confuse it with THE LIVING …
I wrote two thirds of a blog I was practically convinced I’d finished and posted. I write my drafts in Evernote then flip them over to WordPress, so I did have a check, doubting memory and physical evidence all at once, and no...I hadn’t finished that blog. Or posted it. I mean, I remember why …
Another week off. I think I’ve definitely earned this one. I mean, I got home from work at 9:48pm last night. Bearing in mind that I work in retail and started work at 9am. I mean, I think that’s a fucking long day that I didn’t entirely get paid for (don’t worry, I can get …
My first car made this really happy sound when something was going horribly wrong. Bada-ling! With all that kept going wrong with that one, it became a perky, chimey anxiety trigger—especially when it was accompanied by the amber plink of the engine light coming on. It made the same noise for anything - it’d warn …
I don’t think any other kind of app better sums up that whole love/hate Lifebox thing I was talking about before than...dating apps. That’s not to say I use a plural of dating apps — hmm, what’s the collective for a group of dating apps? An inconvenience? A desperation? A sad truth? — but I have …
I hate my phone. Well, no - I don’t. I don’t hate my phone. I don’t love my phone, either—well, actually, technically, I do love my phone, it’s a beautiful thing and very cool to me. But I hate it, too. I hate it as much as I love it. Because I do love it. …
This is the 20th blog of 2018. That’s pretty rubbish compared to what I was hoping to produce this year…but I think looking back at what I have written, I’ve kind of stumbled towards what I always wanted this blog to be…which was, largely, shamelessly representative of my interests and not tied solely to any …
What are my concerns, exactly? Not the concept of “concerns” that defines this blog, no - I think we’re aware of those by now (if you’re new and you’re not, I recommend a brief look back through the posts and you’ll get the concept pretty quickly…or just glance at the Categories available, they’re the main …
There was an interesting development after yesterday’s blog. Interesting in that it was unexpected - I didn’t get a helluva lot further with my idea-development after I’d written my blog, gone back to the flat I was flat-sitting and finished reading my book (Artemis, by Andy Weir, it’s very good, great character work). My notebook …
I’m in the dead space between ideas at the moment. That’s not to say I have no ideas - plenty of ideas. It’s just taking a long old while for them to come together. My tendency to flit between projects to feel like I’m making some progress — but which actually ends up with me …
I Have A Concern. 