And then my snowglobe world, although cracked and leaky from previous ‘life experience’, was shaken upside down, thrown to the floor and stamped on by the cruel hands (or feet?) of fate. I.E. the death of my father almost a year ago. It was like having my security blanket ripped from under me like a fancy table cloth trick gone wrong, and I fell on my arse. I finished uni after being excused from my finals, and remained at home to help my family. I secured a job as a cover teacher in my old high school, and plan to head back to Lancaster to do my PGCE in Sept. 2008.
In the mean time, however, I have inadvertently slipped out of the loop of the majority of my social groups. Many interconnected loops, somewhat like a venn diagram. Forget social butterfly, I am a social venn diagram!! Or was a social venn diagram. Due to the bereavement induced introversion, and minimal social opportunities of working life back home, I have regressed into a social bubble. This has resulted in a lack of blogs. For starters, as compared to the year I spent studying in Oz, I really didn’t have anything happy to write about. And I’m not the kind of person that believes people want to listen to me moan about how crap things were, or anything else I’d been up to for that matter. In fact, I still don’t think anyone will actually be particularly bothered about reading my blog. So thank you… hello? You still here?
Anyway, that brings me onto the reasons I am writing a blog – which are totally selfish, but hopefully avoiding the narcissism that life blogging could inevitably produce. It’s not that I think my life would be particularly interesting to others, but it’s quite interesting to me… and I have a terrible short term memory. So this will act as a diary so I can remember things that I’ve done or thought. Secondly, I’m out of the habit of writing since leaving uni, which is probably more than evident to you reading this. Hence it’s a great way to remember where to put my full stops and capital letters, and to think of words that are better than very simple words for talking about things.
Things to expect from this blog are: recollections of social events; random philosophical thoughts; ramblings about gaming/computers/technology/gadgets; maybe a gripe or two about bull sh*t I’ve seen/heard/experienced; education related stuff seeing as I’m going into teaching; and maybe a bunch of funny or surprising stuff that the teenagers I work with have come out with. Hopefully, I’ll manage to keep it up this time as so far my attempts to blog again have fallen by the wayside.
M xxx
