Important, time-consuming tasks that have prevented me from blogging so far this month:

• Working my way up to the Pokémon League with Hetty, Josephine, Therese, Valerie, Wayne and Phyllis.
• Getting the Mslexia directory into a state that is passable for publication in issue 45.
• Watching Skins. And getting quite upset at the latest plot turn.
• Thinking about blogging.
• Blogging elsewhere.
• Reading Twitter.
• Going on adventures with Craig.
• Tidying.
• Getting my Northern Promise application together.
• Reading Bleach.
• Considering my poems, and then deciding that I really need some new ones.
• Drinking coffee (decaf).
• Reading the Guardian.
• Looking at design blogs longingly. (Ffffound and Yay! Everyday, particularly)

These also all apply as reasons I have not been writing poems.

Oh! This means I have constructed a blog post whose entire reason for existence is EXCUSE. Excellent.