WEBLOGGING IS A VERY BAD HABIT
Yes, we can hear your cries. We promised to turn our laser-like focus upon you, but have in fact been turning our laser-like focus on the creation of some jobware. We have been pasted to the computer, coding complex algorithms and performing various feats of digital alchemy. We will soon be beta-testing JobWare 1.0, debugging it, and then releasing it – no; unleashing it! – on the unsuspecting marketplace like a virus. And then, my dears, we will sit back and sift through the offers with our team of lawyers and analysts.
And of course, there were a couple of freelance jobs waiting in the wings, as usual. These gigs have finally been receiving our overdue ministrations. So the point here is that in spite of having been laid off nearly two goddam weeks ago, we have not had the time to enjoy a lazy high-school summer the way we hoped we would. Our former co-worker, the cyborg, who was terminated simultaneously, best expressed these hopes just after our boss’s boss came ’round our air-conditioned cubicles with a grave face to summon us to a mystery meeting. “E.I. summer!” she shrieked, leaping up to high-five me. Note to our many non-Canadian readers: E.I. stands for Employment Insurance, which we Canadians get paid when we are not working. Seriously.
Our imaginary E.I. summer would have included many idle hours to tinker away on the piano and days of leisure in Montreal avec mon frère et mon ami C, and the writing of baroque escalating extended glittering fantasias for all of you. But alas, we have been too busy to do any of these things. So far.
Nevertheless, our ideological devotion to the form of blogging remains, unwavering. Here at Mango Pudding Blues, we are bullish on blogging. We kind of thought everyone was, and so we were surprised to see blogging equated with cigarette smoking by one of the bloggers we used to read. “Weblogging,” says Ed Bilodeau, “is a very bad habit.”
Hmmm. Something new to worry about.
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