Not dead yet
It’s so passe, or at the very least lame, to blog about not blogging, isn’t it? I guess it’s guilt that drives a blogger into the confessional, as it were, to purge & drive away the “shame” of not churning out the product (as if there’s a huge audience hanging on the sweet profundities put forth hereabouts…). It’s hubris, but as hubris goes it’s not that bad, I guess…
Anyway, as to why I’ve not been posting? It’s not because I’ve not had a whole lot of ideas bouncing around in my head. And I’ve certainly been reading a whole lot of good stuff at other folks’ blogs. And goodness knows I’d sure like to be cool like Frank (who’s been on fire lately – pun fully intended!) & snag an Issues, Etc. Blog of the Week award (talk about a selfishly lame reason for blogging!)
No, I’m gonna fall back on the old reliable “real life” (with a bit of laziness) excuse. It’s been busy, especially at work. This Fall semester has been particularly hectic for some reason, and it’s been exacerbated by the fact that I’m teaching a class for the first time, in addition to my “day job”. It’s only an online class, but it’s still presented a challenge to find the proper balance to get all the work done of managing the course in the online space, along with getting all of the grading & such done. It does help in some ways, however, that my day job is managing the staff that support the systems like the online course management system. Sometimes the cross-over has helped, sometimes it’s hindered; mostly it’s helped. I better figure it out, though, since I’m doing it again next semester… 
Anyway, that’s why I haven’t been posting what I feel like is my usual/preferred mix of theology & pop-culture, with a bit of technology & other good stuff thrown in for good measure. I don’t want to struggle too much with the “why blog?” question, and I have lately. I’ve been over thinking it a little bit, perhaps worrying a bit too much about my “audience”, as I am wont to do from time to time. I’ve been doing this for just over 4 years now, and I think there are actually some folks who’ve been reading it for almost that long (if so, God bless you for your perseverance and good taste…). I think I’ve been pretty consistent, in that I try to write what interests me more than what I think people (i.e., a “targeted audience” so as to build numbers) want to read. If I target anyone, I guess, I target bigsis, because I crave her approval, and I would like to think that I can always entertain and keep her interested. Beyond that, I guess I wouldn’t want to say/write anything to get me in trouble with my beloved, now that she’s reading , and I wouldn’t want to write anything that would cause me grief at work.
Enough introspective time in the confessional. It’s time to go watch some TV. Heroes beckons…
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This is my favorite kind of blog post, at least once in a while.
Remember, there's never anything cool about Frank.Thanks for the compliment. To be honest, I’m never sure if anything I write is any good. To me, it’s always hit or miss.And the pun, yeah, I kinda earned that one…
And you could always post more about your Boston Terriers.
I know what you mean. I can't stay away from it myself (obviously…).
You rock, Frank — even for one of them backwards North Cackalackians!
(Haute South, indeed! Though I do miss me some pulled pig & sweet tea…) That you're down there doing battle in the SWD gives hope, Frank, 'cause I know from my 12 years down there just how bad it was, and I can only imagine what's gone down in the past 7 years…
True dat.I've got some photos I need to process, both from around Holly's first birthday, and then from a recent weekend when Holly & Hammie helped us dog-sit a 9 month old, 60 lb. Boxer puppy. That was an interesting 26 hours at Schloß TB!