1.02.2005
happy new year
OK, so it's new year's day, and i'm really tempted just to go to sleep. i'm exhausted after a day of preparation for a nice big new year's party at home and then going to another one. i do enjoy seeing all of these people and such, so the effort is indeed worth it. but at the same time, me and my whole family are quite tired. i try not to write useless messages up such as this one, but it's difficult to let a major non-sectarian holiday slip by without a posting. so i'm torn between my dual obligations right now: the temporal continuity and relative quality of this blog, and sleep.
i was talking with a friend about my blog, and how a lot of vanity bloggers (ie. not those who are paid by media outlets or such) tend to put up one or two sentences about the most mundane things in life, like strange daydreams or what they had for tea. i recognize that this familiarity and casual nature is key to the life of a blog, but at the same time, there are only so many details that you can bore people with in a day. i've posted my fair share of rubbish, to be sure, but i chalk those up to rookie mistakes. i hope.
well, enough people are calling bloggers the people of the year, or blog as the word of the year, but i don't think that i personally have earned that title. yes, i've got a blog, but i'm not a pioneer: it's a tool that i use to keep in touch with friends around the globe and to vent from time to time in the preservation of my sanity. i'm not one of the elite corps of bloggers who exposed dan rather's gaffe or reported from the floor of the political conventions or who updated the world in the wake of the tsunami. i certainly don't have a book deal coming (or if i do, would people please contact me asap), and i've not been fired for blogging on company time or anything like that. so in the grand scheme of things, i'm pretty insignificant. but i already knew that.
i was talking with a friend about my blog, and how a lot of vanity bloggers (ie. not those who are paid by media outlets or such) tend to put up one or two sentences about the most mundane things in life, like strange daydreams or what they had for tea. i recognize that this familiarity and casual nature is key to the life of a blog, but at the same time, there are only so many details that you can bore people with in a day. i've posted my fair share of rubbish, to be sure, but i chalk those up to rookie mistakes. i hope.
well, enough people are calling bloggers the people of the year, or blog as the word of the year, but i don't think that i personally have earned that title. yes, i've got a blog, but i'm not a pioneer: it's a tool that i use to keep in touch with friends around the globe and to vent from time to time in the preservation of my sanity. i'm not one of the elite corps of bloggers who exposed dan rather's gaffe or reported from the floor of the political conventions or who updated the world in the wake of the tsunami. i certainly don't have a book deal coming (or if i do, would people please contact me asap), and i've not been fired for blogging on company time or anything like that. so in the grand scheme of things, i'm pretty insignificant. but i already knew that.
