Did someone ever say something that in around about way sounded like it was meant for you? I have a niece who is a "prolific" blogger. I put the word prolific in italics because that is the word she used. She was talking about her blog and how she didn't get her first two choices for her blog title. Actually, I like her title. I thought she had shown much creativity with her title. She was...shall I say whining about how blogs should be dropped if the blogger hadn't used the site for a period of time. That way others can use the blog title if they would use it frequently because they are prolific bloggers. She was nice enough to say that if a blog had been opened in 2001 and not used since, it should be dropped. I opened a blog earlier in the year, but I have not used it much. There are reasons:
1. I have a relatively boring life.
2. I seem to be busy grading papers--I happen to be an English teacher. (I have decided that in my next life I will not be an English teacher. I have begun a mind set--hoping that it will follow me into my next life--to be a wife of a wealthy, all around good guy, who doesn't want his wife to work. To compensate not working, I will be absorbed in charity work. I think I want to relive 1930's movies.)
3. Since I am an English teacher, I'm afraid readers will criticize my elementary style writing. My vocabulary has never progressed much past the 7th grade level.
4. I'm embarrassed that I don't have cute pictures to put on the blog.
5. My writing would even bore me that I'd fall asleep before finishing.
Maybe I'll write again tomorrow. I'm on Christmas vacation. That's right--not on a holiday vacation or winter break. I like to call my time off Christmas vacation. I should be grading my semester finals, or I should be doing some organization work...but I somewhat want to try becoming a prolific writer. I don't want to cheat anyone out of the blogspot Cacophony.
(Just to play it safe in case I don't get back very soon--Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!)
I was absolutely not referring to your blog. Did you even look at the blogs I had listed? On one of them I looked at the guy's profile and he had 1 view (me) of his profile listed since 2001 (so he created a blog and then didn't post or even double-check his own profile.) I even considered your feelings before I wrote all that, but I figured you would know that I didn't mean you. And by the way, you are the most awesome story-teller I know. You can tell a relatively boring story about doing something mundane, like going to the store, and have everyone hanging on your words and in stitches by the end.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to see you in just a few days!!!!!