This isn't the entry I started to write...

I started this blog during one of my creative bursts. They don't happen often and they don't last long. When the storm subsides, I'm left with little or no energy to follow up on what I've started. So booked gigs go unpromoted, demoed songs go unrecorded... and my blog sits accusingly empty.

That's not to say my post today is a sign of another creative burst or surge in energy. Quite the opposite. I could barely move yesterday after overdoing it with packing for our impending move and today doesn't seem to have started much better. Steff has been encouraging me to write more and I can see how positive using her blog has been for her, so I'm just trying to get inspired.

Since my last post I've started a few entries, but just couldn't bring myself to write them. Between October and December I wasn't exactly short of material given our Dear Leaders' assault on people like me and the subsequent protests, but to be honest I couldn't bring myself to research just how bad things might get for me and Steff over the next few years. Thankfully, since then we've formulated something approaching a plan for the future, involving returning to studying. Hopefully this will get us both off demoralising benefits and lead to us both being able to work again somewhere down the line, without having to return to Call Centre Hell. It's certainly worth a shot.

Cuts might scupper those plans, too, though. I'd ideally like to end up teaching in adult education. I've heard over the last couple of days that Glasgow University is looking to significantly reduce it's adult education budget. Another option for me is teaching adults with learning disabilities. I find helping out at Enable's clubs hugely rewarding and think I have the patience to do this kind of teaching, but I doubt that Glasgow City Council will consider funding these courses a priority.

I've spent most of my life with no plan whatsoever. Now that I've finally formed one, I have no idea if, 5 or 6 years down the line, it will be remotely viable. Still, a flawed plan is probably better than none.