It was a terrible weekend, and maybe a terrible week, but it still feels okay. Sometimes it works out anyway. What has been happening? Well, nothing of any consequence really. It just felt bad at the time, and mostly because of the Winter Blues more than anything else. Oh, this seasonal adjustment disorder is a real thing, people. It's real! Sometimes it feels as if you're walking around inside a large plastic bubble, seeing the world but forever apart from it, with a brain full of grey tissue paper...
Oh, let's forget all about that. Let's be happy instead. It's pretty easy to be happy when you've been swimming, watched some phenomenal vintage television and munched through a decent portion of your proofreading job. We call it progress, people, progress! What were the television shows? 'Quantum Leap: Another Mother', part four of Michael Palin's 'Around The World In Eighty Days' and 'The Flintstones: The Hypnotist'. All somewhere between very good and great, where 'Quantum Leap' definitely wins out by several noses. Incidentally, what could you possible race that would not allow the phrase, 'to win it by a nose'? A squid? This thought will fester now... What about if we raced horses backwards? Then we could win by a tail? Oh! Oh! We could race lobsters, and they would win by a claw! Hang on, though, do lobsters walk forwards or sideways? This internal debate could go on forever, couldn't it?
Getting away from lobster racing (or penguin racing; if they slid luge-style they really could win by a tail!), this week will also be dominated by an assignment. Yes, an assignment! If only it were more interesting. I'm trying to get excited, but it's difficult. Five hundred to seven hundred words on "Learning a foreign language gives you a unique insight into the cultures of the people who speak this language." might not sound difficult, but it's actually a very small number of words to write about anything. This post is already more than three hundred words, and it doesn't even have a point to make, unless it's about penguins. It's almost aggressively about nothing in particular. That's why it's an interesting thing for the writer, and at best a curiosity for the imaginary readers, who sometimes drop in to read about the funny obscure words. Oh, the funny obscure words!
Coming up soon, you can expect many things. Sometime soon, there should be the aftermath report on 'Press Gang', a book review of 'The Moonstone', more of 'The Ninja Of Health', eventually a piece on Mark Twain's 'Joan of Arc' and in twelve posts time we will have Quirky Muffin 800! The eighth hundred post may end up being an utterly normal post, or a grand review. It is very difficult to say at this point, as nothing is planned. The very best case scenario is the 'joined-up' version of one of the serialised stories, but time may be too short for that. You will have to wait and see...
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