Through fits and starts of genius and ignorance, this page draws near its one year anniversary. Originally I had hoped for more of a community effort at this, as I believed (and still do) that it would be more interesting and enjoyable with thoughts, insights, arguments, and commentary from across the spectrum of Idahoan friends who's desire to keep in touch lead to the creation of this site. Alas, my drivel drove them away and the occasional visitor is stuck with me. Such is the vagary of life, I suppose.
Throughout the last year, I have tried hard to update the site, but I have to say that blogging can be hard. Maybe I'm just not good at it, maybe I'm taking it too seriously, maybe I try to hard, or maybe I'm not trying hard enough. I'm always thinking about stuff in life, be it politics, philosophy, current affairs, science, society, whatever, and since I don't have much opportunity to talk about such things with people in person, I thought it would be fun. And it is fun, for the most part. But I do take it seriously, and I wanted to create a blog that was interesting and worth bookmarking for other people. I think I've generally achieved that for a majority of my posts (slight majority, but majority nonetheless), but I've failed to keep it current with regular updates.
Initially I assumed I'd post once a day. Content isn't hard to come up with, but taking the time to formulate the topic and write it down does. I'd probably benefit from learning to be more concise. I've tried to not care so much about how refined it is and just get something up, but I think that the weaker posts came from there too. But what am I whining about?
I don't really know where I'm going with this, as if I ever do. It's been a good time, and even if I'm not posting as much as I'd like, blogging has led me to write a lot more notes and think about things more. And I've met Jody, a great reader who truly honors me with his continued return to the site and his comments. I hope that I can continue to build this up and post more regularly over the next year. I think this page is RSS-ready as well, so if you syndicate me, your reader will tell you when new posts hit the page.
So thanks for riding along. I've got a whole backlog of notes and ideas that will be hitting this space soon, once I get a better handle on fatherhood. Oh yeah, my dissertation was successfully defended last week, so assuming that the departmental vote on my degree goes my way (which it should, but there is always a chance some rogue dissenter will be an ass), my student life is over.
Go on and tell me how much you loved and hated this space over the last year.
Posted by Nutrimentia at February 10, 2004 12:16 PM | TrackBack