I’ve not been very productive writing-wise this last week or so. There are a bunch of reasons for this, but key among them are:
a) We’ve been really busy socially.
b) I’ve been very sidetracked by PC gaming.
c) I’ve been utterly failing to complete – but preoccupied by – the Nanowrimo Challenge for this year.
d) I am terribly, terribly lazy.
Not only have those four things been getting in the way of blogging, but they’ve also been getting in the way of doing the things that I blog about – that’s exponential procrastination right there.
Being socially busy is kind of nice, once in a while. We’ve had two or three very cool evenings with friends – though we’re a couple, we don’t often do the “couples night” thing, but we’ve had two this last week, and the parents-in-law were down for the weekend, and that’s kind of coupley. The “girlfriend’s parents” might not normally count as a proper couple, but Girl One’s associated grown-ups are pretty cool, and I don’t have to be on best behaviour when they’re around, so it’s kind of like just hanging-out.
Which is good, because I don’t know if I even have a best behaviour any more.
I’ve been playing a lot of “Call Of Duty – World Of War”, after a brief dalliance with “Farcry 2″, and that’s just been far too addictive. If I get the chance, I may post a review of both games next week.
And Nanowrimo was a bit of a downer for me, as I consistently failed to get much done, but at the same time, I at least started doing a bit of work on the novel, and that’s cool, because it’s been fucking ages. But the side-effect of course was that because I knew I should have been writing the novel, I task-avoided doing pretty much anything else.
The only thing that’s really taken a hit has been the SD/RM posts, mainly because I just haven’t been finishing any of the stuff I’ve started reading over the last few weeks. I failed to do SD/TT last week, but that’s because I have a double-sized “They Might Be Giants” post percolating for tomorrow.
I’m also thinking that I might change the headings to the “Seven Days” categories to better indicate what they actually are, like Music, TV and Movies. I think the format and weekliness of them is still a smart idea, but I think that my category headings in general don’t really help with the coherence of the site, unless you already know what I’m doing…
Anyway, so that’s that. A lunchtime well spent. Catch you later on today for a “Requiem For A Dream” meander!