I only realised the other day that it's been over 2 months since i last posted anything here. I haven't abandoned this blog, i've just been (primarily) busy with offline things, and also seem to have lapsed into another phase of the odd inertia/procrastination/writer's-block hybrid that i seem to be prone to (where i can think of any number of things that i would like to write about, and even have fairly detailed ideas for post/essay structures in my head, but somehow completely fail to a) translate those ideas into coherent words or b) actually start writing them. I think it may also have something to do with the fact that the speed i think (for not-explicitly-verbal forms of "thinking") at is (or at least feels) a hell of a lot faster than the speed i can either speak or type at - meaning that i often find it too frustrating to slow down my thought processes enough to verbalise my thoughts in coherent sentences, and/or forget the end of an idea before i've finished typing the beginning of it... and also probably something to do with my very atypical perception of time passing (which is another thing i need to post about)).
I've also become somewhat dissatisfied with the layout and appearance of this blog (again). I don't want to become one of those people who change their blog layout every few weeks/months, though, as i find that really annoying in other blogs (especially when a blog changes again when i've just got used to the last layout...), so i may not make major changes. I might make some minor ones, though (and indeed need to make a few, such as updating my blogroll, as i know a few of the blogs on it have either disappeared, changed name or changed URL, and there are a couple of new ones i need to add). Also, some of my dissatisfaction is probably due to the fact that i didn't actually finish the last lot of changes, because there were things i didn't get round to working out how to do (such as "stitching" together several images to make one image "banner"). If there are any layout changes that would make this blog more accessible to anyone reading it, please let me know.
So... i do very much intend to write several "proper" blog posts soon, but as i've been intending to do so for the last several months and not got round to any of them yet, i don't want to guarantee anything. If you don't like checking blogs that don't update very often repeatedly in case of new posts (i know it frustrates me), then you can follow me on Twitter instead, as if and when i do post anything new here, i'll also post a link to it there.
I'm also considering starting another blog for posting relatively "trivial" things, that i've thought about posting here but then decided not to because i thought they might be too silly or irrelevant to the kind of "serious" stuff that i generally post here and that anyone who follows this blog is probably following it for - photos, random nerdy bits of speculation, etc. Not sure what to call it yet (which is probably actually the main reason why i haven't started it already!), but it might well end up being posted to a lot more regularly than this one. Let me know if you'd be interested to follow it (it would probably mostly cover things like cryptozoology, psychogeography, Forteana, birdwatching/wildlife photography, hillwalking/landscape photography, urban exploration, etc, and be more visual and less wordy than this blog).
In non-blog news, it's now looking pretty unlikely (although still not yet definitely impossible) that i'll be going to Leeds to do the Disability Studies MA this year, and so i'm probably going to go for September 2011 instead. This means i'm going to have to find something meaningful to do with myself for the next year... although i've at least got a reasonable amount of activist focus at the moment, and am not feeling too bad about it, at least for now.
Anyway... if i still have any readers, hopefully i'll be back soon (for fairly imprecise values of "soon")... ;)
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The best of luck with the MA, you will need it.
As you know already the academic path is full of pitfalls.
Disability Studies, something I guess I could have turned my hand to if I hadn't been doing what I am now.
Mind you if I were to be locked in a shed with a pile of books and journals I could turn out a doctoral thesis in disability studies that would make Sir Thomas Shakespeare (bart) look like a poser and a dilletante, hang on a minute, he already does look like a poser and a dilletante, why should I bother :)
Going up to Lancaster tomorrow see what I can find, and do you know what I have not finalised what I am going to be presenting yet, oh well. I will be getting drunk in good company anyway.
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