Deep Blue Funk.

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Date: 12 January 2007 14:45:46

No idea how I've found myself in this one but there you go.

Hmm where are we at since nearly a month offblog?

Well... Works back to being chaotic and barmy. My New Years resolution was to get a better work/life balance after the sixty hour athons of Sept - Dec inclusive but tbh I know that it was unlikely and it pretty much found itself broken as a rule on day 1. Since then works had a couple of road bumps, two pretty major ones, one of which still unresolved and hanging over me like the Sword of Damocles with a pigeon on and all of the things I want to do there get little response from the people who need to get involved to drive things forwards. The youth side of things is aces. Seen two of the three groups I run and was HUGELY pleased to see them all again and ditto for college, despite a huge amount of mucking around that I'm recieving from that one as well... But has been ace seeing the guys and gals again. I really like the students I'm with at both college and the centre which is a bonus. But hours wise I seemed to be constantly trapped in a spiral where if I'm not at work I'm preparing for work and if I'm not doing either of those things then I'm travelling to or from work.

Yay.

Sylver 2 recieved a bit of a critical slap a little while ago which is still stinging. Don't know if I mentioned that in past blogs but was something of a rude awakening and doubly gutting as it was from a previously positive source and also from a magazine that caters towards my line of work... Sigh...

What else? I guess it must just be overwork, most other things seem to be OK I guess. Had a nice Christmas and New Year, loads of nice times with family, finished Gears of War and enjoyed it muchos, if I get the time I'm enjoying Geometry Wars at the moment as well as the odd spot of Lumines 2 and Brain Training but those are fleeting pieces of no time when I end up feeling guilty that I wasn't doing something productive... Son is exhibiting more autistic traits at the moment which is occasionally deeply wearing, but he's also utterly lovely as well which helps. Battlestar Gallactica is back which is ace, Torchwood is finished which is acer (it was pretty dissapointing wasn't it? Such a huge let down from what it could have been), 24 is back but, having seen the first four eps it's also a little bit of the same old same old so of the four things I watch on TV (actually I didn't watch too much of Torchy: first four last two the rest didn't fit into my chaotic lifestyle and the fourth being Lost which I missed all of the series 3 eps so far shown) I'll probably skip two or three of them and only stick around with BG. Which is also on a night that I work on. Surprise. Wanted to catch Pan's Labryinth but it wasn't to be which is a bummer, MASSIVE fan of Devil's Backbone which was an incredibly powerful and emotional film... But things are OK I guess, there isn't much going on outside of work but what there is ain't bad. It's just hard to get myself up in the mornings and sleep patterns are completely clobbered due to my pushing bedtimes later and later just to try and constantly clear off one thing from the lists that haunt me....

Apart from that: Book 3 (not Sylver) is still done and being ignored by some publishers, ditto the graphic novel, book 4 (Sylver 3) is in the process but didn't do that much on it when things where at their busiest and it's a bit slow to start back up just yet and book 5 is in the process but stalled as well due to not enough time to spec out the last half. I've got a couple of paintings on the go, both half finished waiting for my retirement or something. I did do a good few hours work on the WYAC Myspace (www.myspace.com/wyac) which now has a few piccies I worked on as part of the online gallery but, bar that, most of my energies seem to go into paperwork and planning which ain't much fun for anyone to see.

Oh dear that's all a bit depressing isn't it. Slow start to the year then (apart from the fact that I have to do the school run in 8 minutes so trying to tie things up now), hopefully things will both calm down and pick up and, even more hopefully, some of the work things I do will come to fruition but we'll see... Righto, half a cooling cup of coffee to drink and then back into the windy world. Hope that you've all had a cool start to 07.

Currently listening to: Five Iron Frenzy/Alison Moyet/Jack Johnson.Currently watching: Battlestar Gallactica, series 3. Currently playing: Lumines 2: PSP.Currently prayer request: A little more hope please...