Thrisis

I don't know what has happened to me, but I have begun to find myself knowingly nodding along with the self-indulgently grumpy articles and editorials that puff up the Sunday papers.

This latest one was in the Sunday Times' Style magazine (of all places) where Kathryn Knight welcomed me to the idea of the 'mid-thirties crisis'.

Knight quotes Gladeana McMahon - probably because she has such a yummy name for a director of The Centre for Stress Management. Gladeana describes her highly successful, 'driven' patients (love that adjective, 'driven', it suggests you are either too rich, or too pissed, to drive yourself).
Anyway, back to these 'driven' folk. Well, apparently:

'By their mid-thirties, a lot them are tired. They're sick of life and they wonder what it's all about. They start questioning their values and what they're doing'

'Sick of life' is pushing it a bit, but I happily nodded along with the rest of it.

Hence this blog. If I'm destined to have a nervous breakdown during my thirty-fifth year, I thought it might be interesting to 'blog' about it.

Instead of reading self-indulgent grumpiness, I can start writing it.

Or maybe I'm hoping to become a Woman on the Web - or Wow O Wow - as Style magazine ( a fountain of knowledge this week) reliably informed me such women are commonly described by the group of 'America's most successful and well-connected women' who have launched 'Wowowowow.com'.

I was intrigued to read about 'the power of the menopausal woman' (ok, I'm not quite there yet, but ...). Until I saw the photograph provided of these 'alpha women'. 'Energetic' and 'inspiring' they may be, but if they are so resistant to being stereotyped or 'defined', why do they all look so spookily similar?











Well, I guess that's enough for now. I'm not sure how you are supposed to sign off on a blog, being new to all this (might have to read a few to find out). But I thought I'd end with a quote I've found interesting/thought-provoking.

Post's quotal ponderings:

This is from Bryan Fuller, the writer/producer behind Pushing Daisies, describing the movie Amelie:

'All the things I love are represented in that movie... It's a movie that will make me cry based on kindness, as opposed to sadness'

Books read since the last post: Colin Dexter's 'Last Seen Wearing' and 'The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn.

Verdict. Loving them, not least for the fact that Dexter manages to slip in quotes from Shakespeare, Chaucer, Eliot and Kierkegaard, along with a crap joke about a striptease artist, and an untranslated German quotation.