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March 6, 2006
Imminent change
I guess it's been awhile since I actually sat down to write a blog that I enjoy writing. Lately I've been consumed with work--for school, for my RA position, for increased involvement with a few choice activities--and haven't blogged much.
It seems really uncharacteristic of me, to only blog 4 whole entries in the month of February... I think that's a personal all-time low. It makes me a bit nostalgic for the days when all I looked forward to was blogging the ideas that streamed into my head all day when I thought, "I'm going to blog that." Sure, it could be a sign of (more) maturity, as I'm blogging more things of greater substance and fewer things that are inconsequential... But I think it's the personal entries that give a blog a nice touch.
I'm a bit jealous at times, when I see other bloggers basking in the same sort of attention I used to get freshman and sophomore year, but I get over that quickly when I realize that I don't often have the time to sink into it, nor am I blogging for any classes. That really tends to bulk up the entries, that academic blogging. Sends the numbers through the roof, and it's an anomaly when compared to the non-academic stuff that may not be drawing the same (forced?) crowd, and subsequently, the hits and the comments.
Maybe nothing interesting is happening to me anymore. Or maybe I'm not writing anything interesting. I've got to keep those options open, I guess. I know I've been making small-talk as posts, too. The weather, mini-updates on my personal activities, recent things I've read and found interesting.
Yikes. Am I that impersonal? Insensitive? Oh blog, have I forsaken thee?
I design my rear off for others, spend hours at a time reading up on DOMs, DHTML, and alternatives to tooltips (when I originally couldn't get them to work...) and don't end up doing anything for myself. I've decided that, since it's difficult for me to sustain a personal touch with my blog, presently, that it's time for a change. A big one. A physical one. I haven't touched my own templates for a little more than a year now, since the last time I did an overhaul it was December 2004. It may come as a shock to some of you, but the times are scrolling my writing away, and I need to do that in style.
Look for changes, and look for writing.
Posted by KarissaKilgore at March 6, 2006 6:10 PM
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yo dudette
am posting live from Ireland (or should I say Irland du Nord?) howz things lil miss sugar packet?
i must remember to find you some irish sugar to post over- sometimes I do see interesting types and think of you
howz school? howz life? drop me an email girly!!
ps.. tell ash Hoff that I'm not amused that she didn't post a comment I put on the SHU admissions blog at start of Jan!!
Posted by: Lisa McGivern at March 9, 2006 5:31 PM
By no means do I think nothing happens to you, Karissa. I think that we are just internalizing a lot of our lives. That isn't a bad thing.
As for the comments and the attention, I think you are doing just fine. I still read your blog and I know you read mine. People still talk to me about my blog and say that they read something I wrote and was moved by something I said. It isn't the explosive "Whoa, you're on the Internet, just like that?!" stuff anymore. It's an appreciation of what I have written rather than the volume and frequency of it. Besides, anyone can get a blog, but it's the ones that use it as a tool to further their purpose that really stand out.
Posted by: Amanda at March 11, 2006 2:10 PM