It appears that this blog has hit its inevitable identity crisis. That's not to say that I've run out of things to say, but that any attempt to organize a statement into a well-formulated journal entry has been thwarted by my "real" work on one hand and summer lethargy on the other. And therein lies the identity crisis: I didn't necessarily start this up to post well-formulated journal entries complete with citations and in-depth analysis, unless, by chance, such entries happened to be immediately possible and convenient. When this blog was more active, I was just as happy making quick observations as I was launching into involved political diatribes or musing about my hometown. The point was just to keep writing, to keep thinking, and I didn't quite accomplish either this summer.
But it's fall now, so...forward.
2 comments:
I actually thought you had left this blog for dead. I read in Harper's that 94% of blogs don't have a post within the last 4 months. I have the same problem of not really having a 'beat' or theme to my blog but just wanted a space to write about all the stupid thoughts I have in an informal or semi-formal way.
That's precisely what I meant this to be, but the problem is that almost any worthwhile thoughts I have now should be used in my actual work, so this just becomes a forum for self-indulgence. I don't really know why I think that's a problem, though. It's a blog, after all. Anyway, it's not dead, just sort of limping along.
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