Humor Columnist is a word that I enjoy associating with myself. Also it is fun to say, if you do it with sort of an English accent. (Oh, but that would be humour columnist, not humor columnist.) One of the most important thing you can do to convince people that you are actually a humor columnist is to write columns with humor in them.

Lately, that has been quite difficult.

I am going to blame the television, because it is right there, and it can’t defend itself. Yes, sometimes the television can be a source of inspiration. But, that is only if you are open to the inspiration, and also if you are not half asleep and watching crappy television that is about as inspiring as a bar of blue soap. (For reference, green soap is the most inspiring.) For a very long time I eschewed television because I thought it was evil, and also it took away from my time doing other things. But, lately, “other things” are not really fun things, so thats actually OK.

I also blame the internet. For a long time I was on the internet, but never went anywhere on the internet, other than the one or two places that I went. Lately I have been going to two to three new sites every day. My horizons have been totally expanded, and I have laughed and cried and changed my political affiliation and my views on wind power, but it has taken time away from what my purpose is supposed to be – writing stuff.

Not that it is a “purpose,” but it is a good constructive hobby that I like to encourage in myself.

I also blame the summer. I have never been a good summer writer. I love writing in the Fall – so if we get there, and are still sort of where we are now, at least we know that things will take a turn for the better then.

That’s all I wanted to mention – been taking sort of a break, but forgot to mention it, or plan it, and I wasn’t aware of it until just now. But, realizing you have a problem is the first step, right. (Or, maybe admitting. OK, I admit it, I haven’t written much in a while.)

But, like I said, turning things back around, on my way back to once again being a humor columnist.