So woefully neglected, this blog deserves some love and attention.
It being the New Year we can add it to the already growing list of things I have resolved to do or do better this year.
Take running for example. I was a keen runner up until I went to South Africa last summer, managing to get out a few times a week for a quick jog around the city centre and keep myself fit.
But since I've returned from glorious Cape Town, the expensive trainers have remained in their box and not seen the light of day in about six months.
I resolved to take up running again as soon as the New Year got underway but then we had the harshest cold snap since the long, hard winter of '63 (which lasted some four months or so I'm told).
I could have braved the weather and the treacherous terrain but I valued my health and well being more. Plus I was falling on my behind about three times a day anyway. Which is more than enough.
The other main resolution was to decide what it is exactly I want to do when I finish university in a mere four mouths time.
It's hard to believe that I have only a few months to go now until I have to enter "the real world", as myself and fellow pending graduates have dubbed it, and start paying tax and generally be a bit more responsible for myself then I have been in my student bubble.
Although I would argue that being away from home for the past three years has made me that bit more responsible anyway. Furthermore, I would argue that in general I was a bit more responsible then most people my age when I lived at home anyway.
But of course I would have a high opinion of myself.
My girlfriend would rather bluntly point out that I can't even cook for myself. So in that sense I am still hovering around the bounds of being just as responsible as I was when I was seven or eight years of age.
I guess you can add learning to cook something more than a bit of pasta to the ever growing list of New Year's resolutions.
The dictionary defines resolution as "a firm decision to do or not to do something".
At present I seem to be adhering to the latter part of that definition and have been for as long as I've been making New Year's resolutions.
Perhaps the best resolution of all this year would be to carry on doing that.
Making New Year's non-resolutions.
(Sun 17/01)
Taking over the Mersey trains
(Thu 05/11)
A very alternative trip to Leeds
(Thu 15/10)
South Africa's modern day apartheid
(Thu 20/08)
Working in a Cape town nursery
(Tue 28/07)
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