I guess the excitement has worn off...
As is evidenced by the long lull in between now and the last time that I posted something, the world of blogging has lost some of its luster for me. The honeymoon period is over, and now it comes down to the real question -- do I have what it takes to continue this blogging experiment, or will it sit idly by like just another one of my journals that I haven't written in for five years?
I'm hoping that I can stick with this particular project, because I start things without finishing them way too often. I have the attention span of a hyperactive five-year-old when it comes to certain projects -- like deciding I'm going to go through all my old newspapers and throw out the crappy issues and make photocopies of the good ones that I want to save for my portfolio. I started that project last week sometime, and then I stopped after I was about halfway done sorting through my towering stack of papers. I didn't even get close to the photocopying stage.
And then of course, there's always the plan that I'm going to do a thorough cleanup of my apartment -- including vacuuming, getting down on my hands and knees to scrub the kitchen floor and going through my closets and getting rid of all the stuff I use so rarely that I forgot I owned it. I usually abandon that idea shortly after I've finished doing the dishes and putting away all my clothes.
No, I won't let my blog become like another failed cleaning attempt or a never-finished portfolio project. I just got a little sidetracked the past week due to an unhealthy addiction to CNN's coverage of the chaos in New Orleans.
I thought about blogging on the subject of that catastrophe and the horribly botched government response that followed, but I didn't feel like I had anything new to add to the subject. All the sadness, anger and helplessness I felt watching people dying at the New Orleans Convention Center for lack of food and water more than three days after the hurricane moved through is nothing that numerous reporters and pundits haven't expressed throughout all the storm coverage that I've watched. On that subject, all I can say is that I hope the government learns from its numerous mistakes and makes some major changes to ensure that the same horrificly inept response to a disaster isn't repeated in the future.
I'm hoping that I can stick with this particular project, because I start things without finishing them way too often. I have the attention span of a hyperactive five-year-old when it comes to certain projects -- like deciding I'm going to go through all my old newspapers and throw out the crappy issues and make photocopies of the good ones that I want to save for my portfolio. I started that project last week sometime, and then I stopped after I was about halfway done sorting through my towering stack of papers. I didn't even get close to the photocopying stage.
And then of course, there's always the plan that I'm going to do a thorough cleanup of my apartment -- including vacuuming, getting down on my hands and knees to scrub the kitchen floor and going through my closets and getting rid of all the stuff I use so rarely that I forgot I owned it. I usually abandon that idea shortly after I've finished doing the dishes and putting away all my clothes.
No, I won't let my blog become like another failed cleaning attempt or a never-finished portfolio project. I just got a little sidetracked the past week due to an unhealthy addiction to CNN's coverage of the chaos in New Orleans.
I thought about blogging on the subject of that catastrophe and the horribly botched government response that followed, but I didn't feel like I had anything new to add to the subject. All the sadness, anger and helplessness I felt watching people dying at the New Orleans Convention Center for lack of food and water more than three days after the hurricane moved through is nothing that numerous reporters and pundits haven't expressed throughout all the storm coverage that I've watched. On that subject, all I can say is that I hope the government learns from its numerous mistakes and makes some major changes to ensure that the same horrificly inept response to a disaster isn't repeated in the future.
posted by Melissa @ 12:52 AM
1 Comments:
At 9:04 PM,
Anonymous said…
One of my students made an interesting point. I guess we can thank Hurricane Katrina and the governments lack of action for at least 8 years of Democratic governance.
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