Monday 28 July, 2008
Low tide
Regular readers of this blog would have noticed that my blogging, is, well, at low tide at the moment.
There are a few reasons for this. One is that I am spending so much of my working life in front of a computer at the moment I feel less and less able to use the computer recreationally. The thought of turning it on when I get home from work makes me feel slightly ill. The other is that I am trying (though failing) to keep some of my head space for the novel, now that I am working at Meanjin. Blogging and other online games no longer sit high on my list of priorities - though I still read them fairly enthusiastically. The Meanjin job enters into it in another way, as well. Sometimes my blog posts are hasty, ungrammatical and misspelt and I don't particularly want to have to apologise for that - but now that I have a high profile job as an editor I feel more self-conscious about the way I use this space. (Comments picking up errors on a post that I ran on Sarsaparilla a while ago really brought this home.) In retrospect I should have considered using a pseudonym when I set up my site, but it's a bit late for that now.
For me blogging is a space in my life that needs to feel playful. Where I feel less exposed (note retro pun) mucking around is my photography. That might be because I am a total amateur so I really don't care what people think - though it's always nice if they like what I do of course. So, more photos and less words will continue to be the order of the day for a while.
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