Not only do I have waaaay too much to do at work and not only have I actually managed to turn up for practice (more of that later) twice a week for several weeks, I also seem, all of a sudden, to have aquired a social life.
Huh? Where did all these people come from?
So that is why, if you’re wondering. (If you’re wondering, that is, how come I am not updating this thing as often as I used to/ought to/planned to/whatever.)
The few hours I manage to snatch between work and general-interacting-with-other-people are necessarily spent recouperating. Much as I enjoy the company, or rather, much as I enjoy this abundance of people who’s company I enjoy, it doesn’t change the fact that I am an introvert (and the definition of an introvert, in case you didn’t know, is that he/she is de-energised by people and re-energised by solitude, whereas the majority of people are extrovert, energised by socialising.) There’s a decent (if somewhat self-congratulatory) article in The Atlantic (via Vaughan) on the nature of introverts, but that’s a sideline – what I was about to say is that though I am, for example, looking forward to tomorrow night’s Trivial Pursuit session and to Sunday’s “Stitch and Bitch”, and therefore have no intention of cancelling, I will also have to find, on average, a couple of hours a day where I am not required to do anything that could be classified as “communicating”, or else I will run mad/collapse/have a nervous breakdown or just generally snap.
And this blog, of course, is communication.
So: My apologies for being sporadic. While work is taking up as much time as it is, “sporadic” is inevitable unless I become a hermit, and I’m enjoying all these people’s company far too much to want to do that at this point in time.