But I'm BACK AGAIN, said Maggie, with a monumental crash.

Hello, dear readers! After an unforeseen, unintentional, and wholly unnecessary absence, I'm BACK. I'm sure all three of you are thrilled.

I'm sorry it's taken me so long to update. For the past month or so, I simply haven't felt much inspiration or need to write. I've barely even picked up my guitar! But I'm getting back into the groove of it, and am all the happier for it.

Various life events which may or may not have contributed to my lack of musical motivation:
*I left my slimy job at the shoe store and returned to a job I love, meaning I no longer have any source material for being miserable and am no longer so desperate for creative outlet in the face of crushing conformity.
*I got a kitten (!!!) which makes me really happy and also means I have less time to focus on things since she's always vying for my attention. (Though I've discovered that my guitar seems to intrigue and confuse her. Just now she tried to crawl into my lap while I was playing it, and then, when it was lying on my bed, she jumped on top of it and batted at the strings.)

Anyway, talking about music.

This one time I saw the band Girlyman perform (hahaha that's supposed to be funny because I've seen them like four times). In introducing a particular song, Doris, one of the musicians, talked about how people always assumed that the song was about her own experiences, when it actually wasn't. "I'm a writer," she said, "and that means that sometimes I write fiction. It's not always autobiographical."

Sometimes I write fiction, too, and sometimes I when I write I draw directly from my own life. (This song and this song are good examples of the two extremes.) I've decided I'm not going to explain much about this week's song, and I'm not going to say which category (fiction or autobiography) it falls under. I was even hesitant to post it at all, since I don't want it to be misinterpreted, but it's been so long since I posted anything that I figured it ought to go up, regardless.

I will do my best not to allow for any long breaks in the future; I already have a song fomenting for next week. It occurs to me that I'm very close to reaching the goal of this blog: my aim was for twelve new songs, and I only have two more to go! (This week is week 12, but there were those two weeks in July where I posted songs that had already been written.)

Probably after my goal has been reached, I will keep posting new songs when they occur, but I'll stop apologizing for long breaks in between. =P

What are you, new? Go to the first post to find out what this blog is all about!