I'll be honest here: I came fairly close to just not even bothering with this post. More and more, this blog feels like a relic of the past, and more and more even posting this here often feels kind of pointless. So I don't know whether you'll see anything from me in January or not. But, well, it seemed wrong not to at least round out the year. So, for the moment, here I still am. And here this still is.
Current clothes: Blue jeans. A gray long-sleeve t-shirt with a picture of a spacewalking astronaut on it. Blue socks with a design featuring the planets of the solar system. Brown work boots.
Current mood: Not too bad, all things considered. (Said "things" mainly being my as-usual weird-ass work schedule and accompanying bizarre sleeping patterns.) Just a little frazzled, maybe, because I'm posting this fairly quickly, as I have somewhere to be soon.
Current music: Nothing much.
Current annoyance: My "somewhere to be soon" is, in fact, a dentist appointment. So my current annoyance is teeth. Are they or are they not the stupidest body part? I'm gonna go with yes. Yes, they are.
Current thing: Having lots of things I want to do with my time and not nearly enough time to do them in, and still somehow spending far too much of my life doing dumb time-wastey things.
Current desktop picture: Still The Good Place.
Current book: Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins. I'm about two thirds of the way through, and I swear, the more of this novel I read, the less I know how I feel about it.
Current song in head: "You're So Vain" by Carly Simon. Which I'm pretty sure is not, in fact, a song about me.
Current refreshment: I just ate a bacon cheeseburger for lunch. It was good.
Currently watching: Recently finished watching Chernobyl. Which I thought was going to be tough to watch, but, honestly, after reading Voices from Chernobyl, which it seems to have been largely based on, the TV series was nothing. Seriously, that book was probably one of the most painful things I've ever read in my life. The series was very good, though, and its themes are depressingly relevant today.
Current happy thing: Hey, I did get enough sleep today! That's always a real happy thing for me.
Current thought: Carly, please, I have never owned an apricot scarf in my life.
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There do still seem to be a few people who only follow you here, and who I imagine would miss this blog were it to cease. And, though I follow you elsewhere, I'd miss it too, as there's often stuff here which you never post anywhere else. (Though I suppose if this blog ended then you might start to post that material elsewhere.)
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the dentist!
I think most people who care, I'm in contact with via e-mail or other means, but there are one or two who I mostly only talk to when they drop by here once in a while. (Like Smooge, below.) So, I dunno. Maybe I will, maybe I won't.
DeleteIf I were a proper denizen of the 21st century, I'd join Twitter, but I have never been able to work up any enthusiasm for that.
Me neither. Being limited to 140 characters must mean there's no room for nuance in what's said, which I suspect contributes to the increasing polarisation of opinions which we see nowadays.
DeleteI understand about the not posting.. I have been seeing a lot of people 'retire' their blogs this month. If it doesn't bring you joy, then I would say stop posting because you already have enough chores in your life. That said, I was actually planning to take up this and add a calendar entry for the first weekend of each month to put in a similar once a month post.
ReplyDeleteI also just saw a sweat-shirt which made me wonder how you were: It's not hoarding if its books. which made me smile.. and eye my new bookcase.
Would be funny if you started doing it just as I stopped... Well, I dunno. Maybe I'll see how I feel about it next month.
DeleteAnd, hah, I have that on a t-shirt, actually! It is very true. At least, that's what I tell myself.
If it's any incentive, the Twitter character limit is now 280.
ReplyDeleteI get a lot of enjoyment and use out of Twitter--much more than I've ever done out of Facebook--but I do kind of miss that brief window when social media was all blogs. I haven't updated mine in a couple of years.
I know I'd be sorry to see yours go, even if it is just a monthly check-in of currentlies, and even if I don't always have anything to add. I mean, I also thought the Chernobyl miniseries was very good. Does that count? :)
Not very much of an incentive, no. :)
DeleteBut I'm thinking I may keep checking in here at least for a little longer. Don't be entirely surprised if I randomly stop at some point, though.
And, yes, that counts as having something to add!