I’ve decided I really admire people who commit to a blog religiously.

(My lovely colleague @em_gramenz http://emiliegramenz.blogspot.com/ is a good example)

I could now explain my absence: I was overseas, on sabbatical, in a coma, been busy being fantastically successful.

Nope, none of the above.
Blog phase was over, now it has hopefully started again.
I think the issue is that I have trouble committing to inanimate objects.
Examples:

• plants- if it doesn’t rain, they die.
• eczema cream- “Apply daily for 7 days”, 10 months later, still have itchy wrists.
• moisturisers- Does anyone actually apply twice daily?
• blogging- See above
• newspaper subscriptions- I tried but the backlog created a fire hazard
• packed lunches- what if I don’t feel like a mustard sandwich at lunch time?

Or I could just be very lazy.
Anyway, I just remembered the reason I sat down to write this: shameless self-promotion!
I didn’t exactly do nothing on my blogging break, I’ve been published!! For true! Like a proper almost-journalist! Here’s the link!

http://issuu.com/southeastasiabackpacker/docs/issue_15_web

Page 42!

Next step is to get paid…