A New Dawn, A New Day

Here I am writing to this blog which is slowly dying and no longer relevant to me or the blogosphere. Since I last posted so much has changed for me and for those around me. I am no longer frequenting the streets of Dublin. I have traded the halls of UCD for the long shut coal mines of west yorkshire. I am now operating out of Leeds. Furthermore, I have submitted my PhD, sat my viva and was awarded the PhD. I shall be graduating in December some time.
However, in the mean time I will be getting married at the end of November, so as you can see it is all change. I had forgot that this blog was still operational, I had no desire or time to update it. I am thinking that my experiment in blogging has produced inconsistent results. I am not sure what I hoped to achieve with this blog. I think the lack of aims and objectives and most of all the lack of a hook has meant that the postings do not have any central theme or have any relevance to the world outside of my little mind.
I desperately want to continue this blog, but I think that like the early and tentative bands that great rock stars and musicians form in their formative years, this has to be put to bed so I can move into a new genre or a new direction. See this as Paul Weller breaking up the jam to form the style counsel, or Shaun Rider finishing The Happy Mondays for Black Grape. Except maybe it is the opposite, leaving the style counsel for the Jam, or Black Grape for the Happy Mondays. A proper analogy would be Ian Brown putting the shambolic Stone Roses of 1996 to bed and going solo. I am sure Ian Brown has never looked back. Sure he can crave the early days of the Stone Roses, but once John Squire left, the band (like this blog) was slowly dying and moving further away from relevance.
But having said all that, who knows, maybe this blog will get a second life. Writing this is giving me some energy to continue posting. However, I do think I need to go away and think about having a second blog, one that is more focused, one that has a theme, a topic and a relevance to my life and hopefully to others.
I shall keep you updated of any changes or new ventures into the blogosphere. If this is to be put to rest, I shall write one final time to retire this blog. Looking at the title, perhaps it is fitting that I keep this going, 'From where to eternity'. When I started this I did not know where I was going to go with this. I did not know where to start. Perhaps the title of the blog says more than the numerous posts through the last 3 years. Till Next time

touching base

It has become a habit to start each new blog by commenting on how long it has been since I last posted. It has indeed been a very long time. June 09 to be exact. Well a lot has happened since that time. I'm less that 6 months away from getting married. I am less than a month away from handing up my PhD and I also had a load of interviews for clinical psychology courses in the Uk and in Ireland.
This is not a blog with much to say. Basically, I'm just touching base with the blogosphere. My contribution to this community is pretty minimal at present but one day I will have the time and the angle to make this an interesting source of info.