Photo by David Fitzpatrick.
At 8.45am this morning I sat at the computer ready to write my blog post and …. nothing.
I think they call it writer’s block. It’s an unusual state for me to be in, usually I have a million and one ideas and the challenge is picking ONE to focus on.
Today, nadah, zilch, nothing.
It’s now 2.56pm and my “day to myself”, you know the one where I’m supposed to create is almost over. The final bell at school is soon to ring, then they will be on the bus, then they will be here. With a flurry of school bags flying in one direction and school shoes flung off in the other, “is there anything to eat?” will be the cry. I will have to back away from the computer and pay attention to whatever travesty the unpopular teacher has done today, or how unfair the latest detention is (don’t worry my children aren’t delinquents our school is just very liberal with detentions) or discuss whether they can go for a sleepover.
In the meantime, you dear reader will have been left with enjoying the content from Tuesday. OMG Tuesday that’s so out date in this million miles an hour social media world.
I did try, I promise you I did try.
I got distracted by my work facebook page I’m setting up, and spent some time there wondering how we can make it a useful resource for students, parents and teachers on the Mid North Coast.
Then I found myself considering an assortment of options on what to post here for your reading pleasure.
I thought about adding my two cents worth to the Chrissie Swan, smoking while pregnant, story but what is there to say? She’s human, she knows it’s bad to smoke, she’s deeply upset. There’s the debate on whether the magazine should buy the photos – but really why do we keep buying these magazines!!!
Then I spent a little time on Twitter. Racism reared it’s ugly head with an ABC News Presenter subjected to a racist tirade on a bus. But rather than get me fired up to write angry blog post against racism it just made me sad that in this day an age a woman, in front of her own children and the 2-year-old daughter of the gentleman she was abusing, could say such horrible things.
I went searching for happy and light. Trying to unearth a little positivity to bring into your day, and people there’s not a lot about. Apparently sport is rife with drugs and crime, wars are still raging, a nine-year old girl has just become a mother … I had to stop reading. Is there no good news anywhere in the world????
It’s now 3.28pm. My time is up, they will be disembarking from the bus now, in 10 minutes they will be HERE. It’s a bit like racing to defuse the bomb before it explodes.
In the few minutes I have left, I’m turning it over to you. If you have never commented before delurk and let me know you are reading along, just a hi will suffice, so I know I’m not blogging to an empty house. If you are feeling really generous let me know a good news story, from either your life or your community/country, something that makes you smile.
I need some happy to disinfect from spending time on the news sites and becoming infected by all that is wrong with the world.
Update: Jeremy Fernandez, the victim of the racist tirade has written his own account of the incident, I just don’t get why people in 2013 are behaving this way!
I haven’t written all week, because. Have nothing to say at the moment. Totally not why I write, but I went with it.
Things seem a bit funny this year, usually everyone is fired up and keen at the start of the year, but this time I’m getting the sense that people are still tired and jaded?? Certainly, for me I’m finding it a struggle to come up with topics for the blog at the moment and I don’t know why??
Writers block, it happens to the best of us. Don’t beat yourself up about it 🙂
Good news: it’s Friday, it’s sunny, Miss E (6) has a friend over for a play and I’m looking forward to hanging with Mr O after the three Missy Moos have gone to bed tonight. It’s not much, but it’s also everything xx
Yes it’s Friday,I have to cling to that! Thank you for stopping by.
I just checked out the news sites and yeah, it’s pretty slim pickings out there. What did make me smile was the picture of the 7kg baby born in Rockhampton – possibly Australia’s largest baby.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=485028498211659&set=a.143997715648074.22965.107637365950776&type=1&theater
Hope you get your mojo back soon 🙂 xx
Ouchhh!! They breed ’em big in Rocky.
Girls night out tomorrow night Janine, that should provide you with plenty of inpsiration for some blogs!
I expect you each to come with a blog post idea!
the bit on the racism tirade on the bus made me think of an exhibition at the Immigration Museum Melbourne, Identity: yours,mine, ours. They have a tram scenario they have also put on their web page it’s very interesting. http://museumvictoria.com.au/immigrationmuseum/discoverycentre/identity/
Thanks for that Kylie, it is interesting those insidious moments of racism that people continue to experience even in 2013.
I’ve been going through the same thing for the past month. I’m still writing but it’s been agaonizingly slow. All you can do is wait for it to pass.
Have fun on your girls’ night out!
I wonder what’s got into us all! Hope we both overcome it soon.
you wrote and interesting and true post, janine! parenting is like that, but it’s a good thing or we could just get lost on the internet. yes, it’s time for me to get up and get going! joy to you, and a happy weekend with those lovelies. (also, your school is generous with detentions! hmm. maybe i need to come visit?)
Oh Noreen you would die at this school! They could never handle the Montessori approach (you have got no idea how much I miss it). I read a while ago about a Catholic school in Sydney that was introducing a Montessori classroom – that would have been so wonderful.
Here you go – it’s my friend Tory’s tumblr – it’s all about Hopeless Romantics and love. I hope this does the trick 🙂 http://fyeahhopelessromantics.tumblr.com/
I try not to follow too much news as it usually puts me in a bad mood and then I don’t feel like writing. Hope you had a great night out!