The Opener
Why a blog? Well doesn’t everyone, or nearly everyone have one? At last count there were approximately eleventy squillion of them on the interwebby, so why not one more!! Come to think of it, I think I read somewhere that now there is microblogging, (which is a fancy word for Facebook status updates or Twitter et al) blogs as we know them may have had their day. Perfect timing then, for me to start one.
After much thought I’ve come up with the title Pushing Paper Uphill. I work in an office so the title works as a job description as well. Although I won’t be writing about bureaucracy. Really, if you are going to blog about your work, it is best to have an interesting job, in manner of Belle du Jour. I think it is the done thing in blogs to link to things but her blog is probably not suitable for work computers and I don’t want to get anyone in any trouble.
Other bloggers often write about their lives, as Ms Fits (aka Marieke Hardy) did on her famous*, now ended, blog “Reasons You Will Hate Me” but she is a writer and lead a writer’s bohemian life which probably lends itself to blogging about. Some blog about their overseas trips which is very practical as it saves you having to tell about your travel adventures over and over and over again. Others come up with interesting projects to write about, such as Julie Powell did when she cooked her way through Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking**. You might have seen the movie. I have neither the time nor the inclination to do that (although I sometimes wonder if anyone, inspired by her, might have tried an Aussie equivalent by cooking their way through The Margaret Fulton Cookbook).
So Pushing Paper Uphill is born. I was going to call it “From the Cheap Seats” but quick search revealed there were already other blogs by that name, mainly about sports or theatre. Pushing Paper Uphill (I shall in the future abbreviate this to PPU. I am aware this sounds like the name of a union) won’t be exclusively about anything, just topics du jour. So occasionally I may touch upon sport (eg: FIFA is allegedly corrupt! A World shrugs), or even theatre (mental note to self: should go to the theatre more). Politics will be frequently referred to and I will say at the outset that my views are to the left of the political spectrum. There will be a bit of commentary on the arts (my lack of theatre-going notwithstanding) and those things that fall under the broad umbrella that is popular culture. When there are no topics du jour that interest me, you’ll be lucky enough to be treated to my random observations which will sometimes seem suspiciously like angry rants, based on my view of the world, which can be summed in up in one word: incredulous.
At some stage I will learn to upload images.
Yours optimistically
* it wasn’t really that famous but she is reasonably well-known in Australia, partly for RYWHM
**Oh, I’ve done my research.
After much thought I’ve come up with the title Pushing Paper Uphill. I work in an office so the title works as a job description as well. Although I won’t be writing about bureaucracy. Really, if you are going to blog about your work, it is best to have an interesting job, in manner of Belle du Jour. I think it is the done thing in blogs to link to things but her blog is probably not suitable for work computers and I don’t want to get anyone in any trouble.
Other bloggers often write about their lives, as Ms Fits (aka Marieke Hardy) did on her famous*, now ended, blog “Reasons You Will Hate Me” but she is a writer and lead a writer’s bohemian life which probably lends itself to blogging about. Some blog about their overseas trips which is very practical as it saves you having to tell about your travel adventures over and over and over again. Others come up with interesting projects to write about, such as Julie Powell did when she cooked her way through Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking**. You might have seen the movie. I have neither the time nor the inclination to do that (although I sometimes wonder if anyone, inspired by her, might have tried an Aussie equivalent by cooking their way through The Margaret Fulton Cookbook).
So Pushing Paper Uphill is born. I was going to call it “From the Cheap Seats” but quick search revealed there were already other blogs by that name, mainly about sports or theatre. Pushing Paper Uphill (I shall in the future abbreviate this to PPU. I am aware this sounds like the name of a union) won’t be exclusively about anything, just topics du jour. So occasionally I may touch upon sport (eg: FIFA is allegedly corrupt! A World shrugs), or even theatre (mental note to self: should go to the theatre more). Politics will be frequently referred to and I will say at the outset that my views are to the left of the political spectrum. There will be a bit of commentary on the arts (my lack of theatre-going notwithstanding) and those things that fall under the broad umbrella that is popular culture. When there are no topics du jour that interest me, you’ll be lucky enough to be treated to my random observations which will sometimes seem suspiciously like angry rants, based on my view of the world, which can be summed in up in one word: incredulous.
At some stage I will learn to upload images.
Yours optimistically
* it wasn’t really that famous but she is reasonably well-known in Australia, partly for RYWHM
**Oh, I’ve done my research.
love it. ;)
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