Oh, blogs. I'm so good at keeping them up. And now I've recently had loads of ideas of things I want to write about, but I feel like I first need to address the fact that I haven't written a thing since September. Regardless of whether it's only me who reads it.
Now, in case anyone else actually does read this, I'm not going to bore anyone (or myself) by detailing, or even summarising, the last four months, because I have already been acquainted with them and forgotten mostly about them, and frankly, no one else cares. If there is anything at a later date that I feel I urgently want to talk about, I can do so. So, right now, all I am doing is saying: yup, it's been a while. Time to start up again.
I've actually got a fair amount of writing work on at the moment.
I'm writing a Saturday night planetarium show about galaxies sort-of for work; it's actually Alex's job, but he's still doing the February show (planets), this one's for March or April, and so I set myself the challenge of seeing if I could condense bits of my galaxies module of my university course into a 50 minute show suitable for the general public. Not that I load extra work onto myself or anything. If I manage to write it I'm basically just going to give it to Alex and say "there you go, show done for you!" and the rest is up to him.
Then there's the balloon data packs to put together, including background information pages about the atmosphere, space, high altitude balloons and what scientists do with them, then how to use the data, with suggested lesson plans, games, activities, project ideas, discussion points, and so on... I've realised none of that actually makes sense as I've not written previously about the balloon launch plan - basically, we launch a helium balloon, measure a load of things like pressure, temperature, humidity, ozone, etc, and then the balloon bursts and we take the camera footage and the data and make it into a science pack and give it out to schools and homeschoolers. Yay!
SO, I feel like I've now written enough for the time being to just relax and look forward to the next one. Haven't decided yet if it'll be a feminist rant, a university rant, a sciencey piece or other, so I guess we'll see.
