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June 15th, 2006

My 5 a day habit

final judgement

I posted 5 times on Tuesday. I don’t know why I do this. I think perhaps it is either because I have a lot to say or because I am unhappy. Blogging is the only therapy open to us cartoonists because we do not see a lot of other human beings and cutbacks mean that there is no longer a little bus that drives us all to the day centre.

It is quite possible for me to go from one day to the next without seeing another human being. There are two exceptions, one being Maddie_C who comes during visiting hours, the other being a man from the gas board who comes most days. But I no longer talk to him very much because there is nothing left to say. I let him in and he knows where the boiler and pipes are and he knows what he has to do. He leaves when he has done his thing and then I phone up to tell him it doesn’t work and he comes back the next day and so we continue in this never-ending cycle.

It is a strange world I have created for myself. I would say it is lonely but that is not something that you should admit, least of all on your blog.

Just be on the lookout for people who blog 5 times a day, that is all I am saying.

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  1. Steve Humphreys says:

    This is quite sad. And oddly familiar. I used to blog as a kind of spiritual discipline: a place to be honest with everyone as a response to my previous career as a prolific liar, but then someone had a conversation with me which included words like “privacy” and “boundaries”, so now I tend to just put occasional thoughts and news online and struggle with wanting to post lots and lots.

    I’m now not sure whether or not to hope your boiler gets fixed, as you’ll then not even get to see the gas person (is it always a man?)

    June 15th, 2006 at 7:08 am
  2. MadPriest says:

    Ah. The slippery slope into a complete virtual existence. I understand your pain. In fact, I was going to suggest you started a support group for compulsive bloggers like ourselves (everybody else has a support group).
    I even came up with a great name for it – ‘BLOG OFF”, (Get it? Sounds a bit like… ). But, of course, that would just mean you spent even more time on the internet.
    Alternatively, you could retrain as a gas board engineer which would mean that you would get out of the house and meet interesting people and cartoonists.

    June 15th, 2006 at 8:49 am
  3. Sarah says:

    I’m glad you blog so often – I’m a compulsive blog checker. I get lonely at work, so I check blogs to see if people have updated them or anyone has left a comment…

    June 15th, 2006 at 10:03 am
  4. Tiffer says:

    Ditto with Sarah. I thought the point of this blog was that it was very regular. I feel the world has stopped moving when you haven’t updated after a few hours.

    Perhaps the final judgement will instead be “Why haven’t you blogged 5 times a day”…

    Perhaps you should put yourself on the visiting or home communion list.

    June 15th, 2006 at 12:05 pm
  5. Kathryn says:

    Mmmn (she says, in a pastoral sort of way)
    And then, she says, there are all those who read compulsively, in between checking whether or not anyone has emailed them since they last checked 2 minutes ago, when they should be writing their sermons so that they DONT have to spend the afternoon in front of a computer screen checking blogs/emails when they might be allowed out to see some Real People!
    But we do appreciate you.
    Hugely!

    June 16th, 2006 at 10:07 am