Nine Snowboots
Doing It Wrong
For the last few months, I've been a strange combination of busy and mentally blocked. In the summer and fall, I was concentrating on my work for my contract position (which has since ended) while doing a few portrait shoots in my free time, plus a few informal events. I always forget about how time-intensive the editing process is, though, and the combination of an aging computer, general mental fog after work, and a cat that repeatedly jumps on my keyboard means there's sometimes a long delay before I get the shots ready for other eyes to look at.
Oh, hey there.
It's been a busy summer in some ways, quiet in others. That's how I usually roll, but this year it feels like the hours that normally go into a day aren't there because my mind's a little foggier than normal. I guess years of poor sleep habits have their way of catching up to you. A lot has been the same for me since I moved to Halifax in October 2012: work during the weekdays, unwinding during the downtime. It's all status quo lately, but I'm trying to figure out where the spare time goes, what I want for the next little while, and how I need to do it. I'm still trying to figure out the answer, but interesting things manage to break the routine enough to keep me entertained.
Why I haven't been blogging, explanation 39
I went about two months without a post on this site; my energy's been all over the place lately, and I often don't have the amount of focus that I feel I need to do anything particularly well. There are a number of things I'm doing or want to be doing these days, some more important than others, but for the last few months I've been short on resources (financially, yes, but more in terms of time and energy) and have been more concerned with maintaining a sort of "status quo" with my life than moving it forward.
Current projects
I have a few short-term goals for this site, which I'm going to work on in the coming days and weeks as my schedule, energy level and priorities permit.
Review: Kim Harris CD Release Party
One of the brightest lights in the Halifax music scene is Kim Harris, a singer-songwriter originally from Corner Brook, NL. Harris has appeared regularly in the city as a support act, in numerous local festivals including In The Dead Of Winter and Halifax Pop Explosion, and staged last summer's recreation of the entire soundtrack to Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet with Stewart Legere. Last night, Harris launched her widely anticipated full-length debut Only The Mighty(released in February) with an incredible live show in the Spatz Theatre atrium in downtown Halifax.
Re-Introduction
I've had a few different websites in the past 15 years, including a period where I had about five different pages going at the same time. There were the private blogs where I could be as unfiltered as I wanted to be and sometimes share a little too much. One blog that started with a pop culture focus eventually turned into my "SNL Reviews" blog. I had also attempted a photoblog and a space for my creative writing, but neither were focused, consistently updated, nor of particular note.