I've updated The Diary Project this morning and it's all completely up to date, which always makes me happy.

Kirsty Hall: Diary Project envelope from 8th August 2007

I am a little cross this morning though because I can't find my username and password for my a-n projects unedited blog. I've been meaning to update it for absolutely ages - it's getting to the embarrassing point at this stage - but it kept falling off the bottom of the list. I'd finally got myself organised to sit down and do it this morning and then promptly found that I couldn't. Grrrr... I'm going off to try various options in the hope that I can drag something up from my memory, if not, I'll email them and try not to look like a complete idiot!*

On the plus side, I've just learnt how to make text change size in WordPress, the rather fabulous open source software that runs this site. This is happy-making because I try to learn something new every single day, even if it's just a little thing. I like getting to the end of the day and thinking 'well hey, whatever else happened, at least I learnt something today'. Hmm, I wonder if that's partly an artist thing? What do you think? Certainly, I think that creative people of any stripe tend to have more than average curiosity and that's often coupled with a desire to find out how things work and learn new things. I also think that creative people are frequently fuelled by dissatisfaction - you know the feeling, 'well, it's kind of OK but it could be even BETTER!' Of such constant thoughts are new things born. It always amazes me that people who aren't artists have this romantic notion about how it must be wonderful all the time, when in reality it's usually more like an itch that you can't quite scratch!

*EDIT: Much to my great surprise, I did manage to guess the username/password combination so I now have absolutely no excuse if I don't update that poor neglected little blog today!