Apathetic Apathy
With most things when novelty of newness wears off Apathy returns. It's the same with blogging. I've got 1001 thing I could fire off a blog about, only I always seem to find something more important to do. Even when something else involves nothing more than sitting on my backside staring out of the window. However, I suspect I've hit upon a solution. The trick it seems is to build up a head of apathy on a different subject, then to actively avoid doing it by doing something else. Although I really couldn't be bothered working out what it is I'm avoiding by writing this blog entry - I suspect it involves email, but it could be something to do with DNS.
Meanwhile, whilst contemplating apathy I typed a relevant search into google and have been wandering around the net finding all sorts of interesting things.
The highpoint has to be an article on Tony Benn's website. Which lead me to read a few more of his articles, all of which are excellent. Especially as they fulfil some of the prime requisites of apathetic surfing. Instantly interesting, generally diverting, and a splendid way to waste time.
Then there was the abstract of an article entitled Apathy: a treatable syndrome from the The Journal of Neuropsychiatry (a hideous website, proving something I'm sure). The abstract is only a single paragraph, and most of the words are jargon but the first line leaps out
Apathy occurs frequently in neuropsychiatric disorders both as a symptom of other syndromes and as a syndrome per se.
Pills available from you doctor no doubt. The front page of the site where I found this abstract is entitled The Responsible Parent's Guide To Healthy Mood Boosters For All The Family and if that wasn't odd enough, the whole site is part of BLTC Research an organisation founded in 1995 to promote paradise-engineering. For the apathetic surfer downright weird is always a good call.
And then, as if I needed more amusement I discovered a site for apathetic geniuses.