Welcome Philosocats, and
muse with me as we take another well earned break and reflect on the
world within ourselves, our own personal issues and dreams and hopes
and future. Join me will you on this journey of self-enlightenment
will you as we explore what the last week has held for us? And what
the future holds as well?
Of course, this being a written post
that you can't contribute to until it's the end, for the most part
this will be me just talking about personal news and news on the
site, since I'm not terribly good at the personal part of this
'personal' blog. In fact let's talk about this...
Because the last week had the first
post on the site that wasn't mine, and I'm rather glad of the
reception that got. Bit of backstory behind it; I was asked to put it
on by Heather, the writer of the article, because she wanted it out
there and didn't really have a blog of her own to put it. I was a bit
worried at first since it was a very serious subject being placed in
between me overanalysing pop culture, attacking politicians and
cracking wise, so I didn't want the importance of what she'd written
to be undermined by my usual content. Most of the people that got in
touch with me about it (Shameless Plug time! Twitter's @HuggyDave, I
respond to everything or leave a comment down below) were very
supportive though, which helped, and it's also why I've subtly
changed the tagline and might change it further, since it's not
really a 'personal blog' but more a collation of views, because I'm
pretty terrible at writing about my own life, it feels too much like
I'm bragging or trying to elicit some kind of sympathy when I try.
That said, I probably should put more
individually creative fare up here, like short stories or whatever,
show I'm more than just a grumpy ranting lunatic. Expect the content
to hopefully get a bit more esoteric. Also, I need to really finish
the next part of 'Girl Depowered'. That should hopefully be a bit
more analytical and actually provide some clear scope of what i'm
trying to accomplish.
I don't think there's any other site
news, so I guess I've got to go into my personal life don't I? Well,
I suppose I should explain what I do when I'm not writing this stuff.
My main stuff outside of my post-graduate study and the endless
sleepless nights and uncertainty applying for funding and loans
provides includes the band I'm the lead singer of, a metal outfit out
of Lancaster called Project: Unicorn (Look us up, we actually exist)
and already we've got some pretty exciting gigs coming up in
Lancaster, so if you're around Lancaster in the next four months,
might be worth a look. We even got reviews calling us “pleasantly
surprising”!
There's a reason I'm hardly a marketer.
There's also the writing/editing gig I
have with local student newspaper The Whistleblower, which takes up
quite a bit of my time, but on the plus side means I actually have
relevant job experience working for a newspaper! On top of that
there's my other personal writing projects I have, projects I really
need to work far more on than I have over summer. I've gotten lazy
apparently.
Well, this was short compared to most
of my posts, but I personally feel better for doing this. See ya next
week when I will have the need to do this again! Or otherwise feel
the urge to cleave through things with a giant axe.
Keep musing, Philosocats!
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