spit it out

so i've just seen that i haven't blogged for more than a year. this is partly laziness, partly being sucked back into the world of the office and days spent in front of a computer, leaving little enthusiasm for the typed word and partly because of lack of anything interesting to say. i know, when did that ever get in the way of a good blog post? i sometimes think that if we actually only said the things that really mattered, really told someone something or imparted vital information we would spend much of our lives mute. and personally i don't think that's such a bad thing. a world without 'yeah, i'm on the bus' wouldn't be such a terrible place, would it? so, pet peeve number 1,320. chewing gum. actually not the gum itself but the people who seem to think i want to hear what sound it makes while it is being masticated. or that i might like to sit on a seat with a lump of wrigleys decorating it. or that my shoes lack a certain something.