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'Group Hug!' by me, via Flickr
New year really takes it out of me. It always has and it probably always will. Hot on the heels of the Christmas family gatherings, where the nearest and dearest are a lot nearer than usual for a lot longer than usual, I come to it with my socialising batteries already somewhat depleted.
I am not a party animal, I need my own company for large amounts of time if I am going to function correctly. As a result, New Year is often a test of my ability to act like a human being while people are around.
I got through it this year like I always somehow manage to, but I shall be spending the next few days hidden away in my office, drawing comics and writing articles on my own. I need this time to recharge and get back into my equilibrium. If I don’t get it, I will no doubt go even more mad than I apparently already am.
That’s not to say I don’t like the company of others – I really do! I just need time to myself after the get-togethers are over with. I love seeing friends, chatting, playing games and otherwise generally being sociable. It’s just that happy and sociable are not my default settings. My usual state of mind is more akin to that of a hermit. I am comfortable in my own company, just as others are only comfortable when people are around them.
While Sam and Jade (both of whom I would count as somewhere between best friends and actual family in terms of how high a regard I hold them in) were visiting, Jade and I got to discussing our video channels. We are both determined to increase our content this year in the hope of making our output both better and, consequentially, more popular.
There is a new channel online for our combined efforts and also for us to discuss future projects in messages to one-another, and we even discussed putting together a production of Jennifer’s Bringing Home the Stars, if we can secure enough time and funding to do it. I would love to be able to put together a film of Bringing Home the Stars. It is an amazing novel and it would transfer to the big screen so well.
We shall have to wait and see what happens, of course. For now, I’ll leave you with today’s vlog from the ZJKR channel.
Oh, as a final note I’ve just been playing Doom on my iPhone. It’s an odd experience to be playing a game on my telephone that I couldn’t run on the PC I had when the game came out (a 386SX/25 with 4Mb RAM and a 40Mb hard disk drive) without seriously reducing the graphic quality. That’s right, my phone now runs games from my childhood better than I could run them at the time. I love living in the future.
Tags: Bringing Home the Stars, film, Jade, Jennifer, novel, projects, Sam, videos
