downtime

I'm really not doing very well with this, am I? I know I'm disappointing my legion of regular readers by not posting more often but life, well, it is what it is; and right now it's what it is with creativity and spare time occurring at mutually exclusive parts of the day. When they start putting a dining/internet café carriage on the 8:11, blogging will be so much easier. I'm still a bit reluctant to take the laptop on the train though, mostly because I don't have a bag that makes lugging it up the fuck of a hill to the railway station at all easy.But here's a humorous anecdote to take home from work.I was at a party on the weekend and caught up with a friend I hadn't seen in over a month. She came into the room where I was enjoying more than my fair share of the corn chips and we started chatting.

"I've given up smoking," she informed me. "Way to go," says I. "Yep, four weeks now," she said "So what have you been doing out on the balcony for the last hour?" I couldn't help but ask "Oh, having a spliff," she said.

I told her that dope and me don't have a very good track record. I explained that it tends to cause me to lose the ability to breathe involuntarily, something we all take for granted.

"Is that all?"

Whoah, tough crowd.