Motherfucking Time Vampire

I really do hate technology. I wonder if my technophobia derives from a similar root as my misanthropy; I can get rapidly and immensely pissed off with humanity simply because I don’t think we’re living up to our potential at times, and I feel much the same about early 21st century technology. Are we rushing things too much? Are our leading IT companies pumping out skimpily beta-tested products that are full of bugs just to keep up with, or slightly ahead of competitors? I only ask as around 75% of the last dozen or so software packages and hardware I’ve used haven’t worked properly.

I don’t want to back away from technology, and end up as an entrenched luddite, living in a wooden shack scribbling venomous invective to Bill Gates jr., but on reflection, I don’t think I need worry. I’ll surely die sometime in the next few years trying to configure Windows Media Player 12.

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I haven’t blogged in a while. I suspect it’s down to my processor running at too high a speed; I’m not doing particularly more than I have done in the past five years, but I’m doing enough to give my lazyitis palpitations…that’s a horrible metaphor, isn’t it?

I’m working full time, and studying an HNC full time, with another night class thrown in on top of that (first it was CAD, then music production, and shortly it’ll be German), and I generally feel that I don’t have enough time to feed and clothe myself, doodle aimless guitar riffs and vent my spleen inarticulately on the internet. I’m building up a list of tasks that I really should take a look at, but they’re growing by the week…I’ve contributed virtually nothing to the novel I intended to write this year, and my lack of desire to write in general is worrying me somewhat. I don’t feel as if I’m short of stimulus and ideas on what I could write about, I just lack the perspicacity and enthusiasm to corral it all into some form black and white. Still, the reasons for this might form the central spine of the next blog I put off writing…

That said, I have managed to crawl from my bed to get some things done. I’ve paid off the digital SLR camera I bought last year, and I’ve even used it to take some photographs (!), mostly of my new niece Kate, who was born last Thursday.

And in other news, I have become slightly obsessed with Tina Fey/Liz Lemon, although I’m not sure at all where the former ends and the latter starts.