I have realised that I am bored of my blog layout. Shallow, perhaps, but also demotivating for blogging purposes. You don’t spend time somewhere, even somewhere virtual if you’re bored of the way it looks.
I want a three column layout, with the blog down the middle and as-yet-unselected STUFF down each side. Blogger layouts, you fail me. And this is a really really bad time to be thinking about making my own. Grrr.
Seriously, when you can update in 140 letter gobbets, a lot of the stuff I would blog about goes by-the-by, especially in a period where there’s not very much going on in my life that merits long-winded dramatic or entertaining, or even expositiory, statement.
I’m still alive. I still can’t get my supervisor to read my work and reassure me I haven’t just blown my thesis out of the water in five sentences, and I’m still stupidly excited about going to Rome in April.
I’m vaguely more motivated than I was, courtesy of spring-like weather arriving. It’s light in the morning when I get up now, OMG. I have big plans to go to Cambo woods this weekend and take photos of the snowdrops, and to actually get on with doing some of the travel-writing I’ve been planning since, oh, Krakow last January. I did have big plans to get a lensbaby for my camera so I could play with fun focus tricks, but since I’m in the process of renewing the photo on my driver’s licence, my passport and a bundle of injections for my trip to Tanzania. Just made an appointment with the nurse for a fortnight’s time to have my typhoid, rabies and meningitis jabs/boosters allatthesametime,ow. Possibly not the brightest idea ever, but I figure if you’re going to spend about £70 on having a bunch of needles stuck into you, you might as well get all the pain over at once. And then lie back on the sofa for the rest of the day feeling faint and watching stuff like High School Musical and Mean Girls.