False Start

With hindsight standing over me like an untrusting parent, wearing a smug expression and pointing out all of my prior failings in meticulous detail. I now realise that attempting re-enter the blogosphere foolhardily, at a time when my social calendar was unusually overcrowded, was not the best of ideas. I am already forgetting to update it.

I want this blog to work, and for it to do so I need to redevelop the habit of sitting down for an hour or so, a couple of nights a week, with the intent to blog - and then do just that. That is however, dependent on me having some alone time, and that just hasn’t happened this past week.

The few occasions I had time in which I could have written, were mere interjections between work and an almost constant string social engagements. Which is a polite way of say almost constant drinking sessions. In the space of three months I appear to have turned from serious amateur athlete to part-time party animal. How quickly I gave in to temptation! I would make an awful Jedi. The moment you turn your back I’ll have joined the dark side and be putting an end democracy – with my lightsaber.

Commonsense has won through. I have decided to curtail the late night drinking sessions drastically; I love the company of my friends. But the excessive drinking and partying isn’t really for me. I would like to remain healthy, and really; the only things I like to do in excess are reading and sex.

I feel good for writing this entry. I felt like I had to write and upload something (good or not), if only to prevent a relapse in to inactivity. It has also given me a couple of ideas with regard the future direction of this blog.

Firstly, I’m thinking of creating a new blog and moving all my book reviews and general literature talk over there. Leaving this blog for ‘me and my thoughts and life’ diary style entries. However, the second idea was to cut back on the diary style entries for a while. Instead, I want to try focusing each entry on one theme or subject; rather than just talking with no real point to get across.

Any thoughts?