Today must be the most bloggable day of the year. and I, with my crisp list of good intentions, am certainly no different 
But before I get into all that, and in the spirit of New Year honesty, I will get something off my chest. I find blogs and community sites like this a little hard to get to grips with. I have a huge interest in this network of thousands of interesting people who I may meet, and yet there is no inclination to make the effort and actually meet them. I don't mean literally in person, but to get beyond the initial banter and learn about cultures, minds and environments that aren't my own. Instead I tap out these little blogs, figuring that a handful of people may peruse them, with little effect to myself or them, and essentially, little point. I have no grand words, schemes, ideas or life, I cannot teach and I do not learn.
I have been interested for a while by Roland Barthes theory of the author/ reader relationship (which without sounding too twatty by name dropping shit I learnt at University, is the idea that there is no 'author' hidden in any text we read, that we cannot know anything about the author by what he writes, we can only know the 'reader', and learn more about his character by how he is affected by the text he had read. His incredible essay in a two sentence nutshell is a little insulting, but thankfully I don't believe many people read my blogs.)
And so. The author can vainly hope he touches someone with his words, and I, the dreary blogger, who has nothing to say- well, I fill the time as you wait for the kettle or doorbell. Why do we write these blogs? For approval, understanding, admiration? Possibly. To make good, true friends? Not me personally. To publically self indulge? Yes, probably.
And with that, of course, my resolutions;
1. Attend Irish Dance class.
2. Continue with Birkbeck Arts Management course- this semester; Galleries, Museums and Exhibitions
3. Get to gym, burn fat, shut up.
4. Make more friends in the local area.
5. Take weekends away, see the shows you read about, get to the exhibitions, take photos, practise your guitar, keep being creative, and namely do all the things that you promise yourself you will do.
6. Use rollerskates.
To any of my handful of readers, I wish you a very happy New Year. May this paragraph have been suitably long enough for the kettle to have boiled
Bon Nuit x
But before I get into all that, and in the spirit of New Year honesty, I will get something off my chest. I find blogs and community sites like this a little hard to get to grips with. I have a huge interest in this network of thousands of interesting people who I may meet, and yet there is no inclination to make the effort and actually meet them. I don't mean literally in person, but to get beyond the initial banter and learn about cultures, minds and environments that aren't my own. Instead I tap out these little blogs, figuring that a handful of people may peruse them, with little effect to myself or them, and essentially, little point. I have no grand words, schemes, ideas or life, I cannot teach and I do not learn.
I have been interested for a while by Roland Barthes theory of the author/ reader relationship (which without sounding too twatty by name dropping shit I learnt at University, is the idea that there is no 'author' hidden in any text we read, that we cannot know anything about the author by what he writes, we can only know the 'reader', and learn more about his character by how he is affected by the text he had read. His incredible essay in a two sentence nutshell is a little insulting, but thankfully I don't believe many people read my blogs.)
And so. The author can vainly hope he touches someone with his words, and I, the dreary blogger, who has nothing to say- well, I fill the time as you wait for the kettle or doorbell. Why do we write these blogs? For approval, understanding, admiration? Possibly. To make good, true friends? Not me personally. To publically self indulge? Yes, probably.
And with that, of course, my resolutions;
1. Attend Irish Dance class.
2. Continue with Birkbeck Arts Management course- this semester; Galleries, Museums and Exhibitions
3. Get to gym, burn fat, shut up.
4. Make more friends in the local area.
5. Take weekends away, see the shows you read about, get to the exhibitions, take photos, practise your guitar, keep being creative, and namely do all the things that you promise yourself you will do.
6. Use rollerskates.
To any of my handful of readers, I wish you a very happy New Year. May this paragraph have been suitably long enough for the kettle to have boiled
Bon Nuit x