why i blog.

just working out some shit here, obviously. feel free to ignore.

my list so far:

1. i sometimes have things to say that i think might interest and amuse others.
2. i am horrible about keeping in touch with non-local friends; this provides a way for me to update my out-of-state peeps in one fell swoop.
3. relatedly: there are people from my past who i secretly hope are reading (JRH, if you're out there, say hello!).
4. i am a massive tech geek and dig tinkering with all things computery and interweby.
5. there are good people out there i do not yet know, but should know, who may stumble upon this site.
6. when the war of monkeys vs. robots comes, the bots will spare me.
7. it is fun; a pastime; a hobby.
8. it gives me a reason to write, but is low-maintenance/undemanding. kind of “creativity lite.”

i don't know about you, but i feel better already.

i can't possibly be the only one who has ever seriously questioned why they do this, what it means to do this...right?

cough.

Comments

[amy]

I could have written the exact same thing. Except that only about three people read my blog, compared to what is certainly MUCH more on this site.

[schmutzie]

Every once in a while I suffer paroxysms of self-doubt and wonder why I do this if I should be doing this at all. I seriously can't pinpoint any one thing that keeps me at it, but it probably has something to do with having a space in which I feel I can blurt out whatever the hell I feel like, whether it be a heavy confessional, good poetry I'm reading, or my first comic strip. Everywhere else has more rules than I can bear, but the site, it's mine. Still, catch me another month when I'm freaking out about it again.

[sweetney]

amy: you'd be surprized how many people read your blog, i bet. i only know the figures on mine because of site stats, but if i didn't i wouldn't figure so many based on the average number of comments i get on posts. lots of people lurk; you'd never know they are there...

schmutzie: i totally respect and dig the desire for confessional space -- or just SPACE, period. i too like having this little slice of internet real estate to do whatever with i please... and i admire those who are able to really open up and, for lack of a better word, "share", but i think part of me really being who i am IS being slightly reserved. i'm not putting that on or anything just for the interweb. i could detail all the reasons i am self protective, but i'd just end up sounding like some pop psych bullshit. let's just say experience teaches us things, and i'm a quick learner. werd.

[shy]

Hi:

This is totally off the topic, but I read one of your entries about "passing through the gates of hell" and thought you would appreciate this:

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/openletters/16wholefoods.html

[claire]

All you have to do to figure out what this means is to ask yourself "How do I feel when my interweb connection is down?"

Uh-huh. Complete desperation, yes?

And when the robot/monkey wars come, this is how the discussion will go:
BOT1035: Who do we get rid of first, Bot 1036?
BOT 1036: Those bloggers! They will never submit to the iron will of our authority!
BOT 1035: And who next, Bot 1036?
BOT 1036: Those people who tried to make us into poetry! I HATE poetry!