I Apologize for the Drought

Again, I must apologize for the drought of posts here…

Of course, this is provided I have any sort of regular readership. Otherwise, it doesn’t matter as much. Though you could say, in that case, that I am apologizing to myself. =)

I do have somewhat of an excuse, as in the last weeks I’ve finished up the last hectic two weeks of my church internship job, moved back to the city where I go to college, and begun a painting job that averages about 10 hours a day.

Regardless of excuses, however, I do realize that posting consistently is a key part of having a solid blog, even though the expected and unexpected immediacies of daily life often get in the way of that ideal (here’s a novel idea: I could write shorter posts. Not every post, after all, has to be some sort of masterpiece).

This thing is definitely still in its germinating stage. In other words, I’m still trying to figure out what kind of “publication” I want my blog to be.

Record of personal life?

A compendium of philosophical musings?

A commentary on the larger goings-on of the world?

Or pet project with a limited life span?

I don’t know yet, really. Hopefully some combination of the first three, and that ideally with more artful weaving than disjointed jumbling.

We’ll have to see

For now though, we’ll end not with that ambiguous sentence but with a disturbing fact: I said earlier that “I don’t really care if nobody reads this.” Turns out that I must care more than I thought I would, because I’ve been checking to see how many hits I have far more often than I’ve actually been writing anything on here. How’s that for a manifestation of the human narcissistic tendency?

I have decided

I started this blog a couple weeks ago, full of idealism about it.

However, after taking three hours to write the first post, I had a couple of new thoughts:

(1) This is defeating my goal of not wasting time this summer. Didn’t I expressly decide to find something to do other than using my laptop as a private reverse-tanner?

(2) No one is going to read this anyway.

This is where the idealism died. The “blog” lay abandoned for the next two weeks.

However, I have recently reached several more conclusions:

(1) This might be good writing practice

(2) It would also be good to have a place to put links to some of the interesting things I find on the Internet.

(3) I don’t really care if no one reads this.

So in the end that is why I have decided to recommit and give this thing a real go.