Blogging doldrums

I've been neglecting The Green Stick. I admit that I've been putting most of my online social networking energies into Facebook. But, to be honest, I also don't have much to blog about. I'm very busy with my work. That's (still) going extremely well. But I think it's prudent to avoid writing about your job on a public blog. Also, the dilemmas which fill my days at the office - putting commas around participle phrases, whether or not to capitalize 'asset turnover' - don't make for fascinating reading.

This weekend I was getting a bit depressed reading The Letters and Journals of Katherine Mansfield. She had such an exciting life full of ideas and conversation, and there I was sitting in my apartment. This situation is completely unncessary, of course. I'm young, healthy and free, and I live right in the center of a lively city.

This upcoming week will be a bit unusual for me. In order to collaborate more closely with colleagues in a different time zone on a report with a tight deadline, I will be working late each evening but also starting later in the morning. This means I will get to sleep in, and I'll be free from my usual strict 10:30pm work-night bedtime.

Thus, I've decided to kill several birds with one stone by setting myself a blogging challenge. I will do something unusual and interesting every night this week and then blog about it. Just to leave myself an escape hatch: trying a new recipe will qualify as "unusual and interesting." But hopefully, at least one or two of the evenings will be more adventurous than that.

So stay tuned for the week of blogging dangerously...