You may be wondering what the sod this is all about. To be frank, I am too. But you'll notice the date on this post, and the date on the last one, too.
Around this time last year, I fell out of love with writing - I just really could not be bottomed to sit down, pop me glasses on, sniff some coffee and start tapping at my keyboard. I wasn't inspired to write anything, and I certainly wasn't going to inspire myself from the three seconds I got a day to think about myself.
This year, it's not much different. The calendar is chocka, and there's not a lot of time to even breathe, let alone sit and think. There's a lot going on in my life currently, and there will be in 2012 too. And that's quite a scary prospect.
Two months today, my fate will be sealed with the traditional 'Your time is up; please put down your pens', and the final closing of an exam paper. Then I should hopefully be on my merry way to university come September. Or so that's the plan. Deja vu, anyone?
I also have a temporary Christmas job at Waterstone's, like I have for the previous three years, and I'm back with some of my favourite people in the world - James, Phil, Laura, Richard, Liz; the list goes on. And it's great, but horrifically tiring.
Not to mention the worst timing known to man of my biggest project to date at my other job, but that's neither here nor there - cos that's just a barrel of laughs and it allows me to be creative, and exciting, and different to what I normally am. I couldn't ask for more.
But all this fannying around doesn't really allow for a lot of time to sit and write. I write for five public blogs, three private blogs, and I also have to keep my online portfolio updated. I also write all the public documents and website content at Parc Computers - my proper job, and try and come up with ideas for other bits and bobs I have going too. It's a killer.
It's made me open my eyes and realise I don't have a lot of time left for myself anymore. I haven't finished a book in seven months. So I need to 'streamline', in a way. So here's the plan.
Come January, I'll be losing a few blogs, and concentrating bloody hard on making the others even better than I have tried to before. I have a vague idea of the plans, but it's like wading through mud in my brain at the minute, so God knows what'll happen.
I'm sure that was as interesting as a shit on a stick, but I needed a place to vent and get that off my chest and onto some form of electronic device.
I mean, this is General Musings of an Idiot, after all...
Taken from General Musings of an Idiot: http://www.gmoai.com
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