2013 was a bit of a bastard and 2014 was much
better, but 2015 doesn’t seem able to decide whether it wants to be good or
bad. Sometimes 2015 gives me a big back of jelly sweets but then informs me
that he has rubbed his helmet all over the black and red ones. I suppose it is
too early for an assessment of the year as if I was writing this in December,
but so far 2015 is being a bit of a prick. I have stuck to my resolution to do
something creative every day yet this is becoming a challenge as 2015 seems determined
to fuck me up at every opportunity. Take today for example; my Internet went
off the day before Bowie Day goes
on general release so I won’t be able to publicize it if it is still off. I
also have to record The Sunday Alternative
this week and upload before Sunday so I might be knackered for that too. Although
I am sure that there are people in the world with bigger problems than mine,
this setback has set my mood on a downward spiral.
I’m not that person
who is constantly updating Facebook or tweeting so I can go without Internet
access for a while so it’s not the end of the world to not be able to go online
for a bit. When I log into social sites I don’t go back to see what I have
missed, I just see the new stuff so anything can happen and I won’t be aware of
it. However, when you write a daily blog and have done well so far to keep it
reasonably up to date, or when you have booked a day’s ‘holiday’ from the
courtroom in order to shout on social media about your new piece of work, then
it is an inconvenience. Despite my usual bad luck (another chance to use the
expression ‘if I fell in a barrel of tits I’d come out sucking my thumb’) I
have managed to plough on with my resolution, Internet or no Internet. For the
last few days I have been writing my bit of the anonymous radio pilot and using
some of my offline time to carry on recording old audio onto CD, with my
American radio show being the focus at the moment.
My to-do list for the year is stuck to my
office wall to my right hand side and I had a sudden crisis of confidence that
the year was running away from me and how could I possibly manage to complete
every project on there in time? I calmed down a little bit when I remembered
that the year is only seven days old and I am perhaps a little premature in my
panic. I have arranged a meeting next week regarding filming projects so I am
optimistic about what can be achieved, which isn’t like me at all so I am
constantly on the lookout for something terrible to happen.
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