Jun 29, 2010 16:16
When I last posted in this journal (which was a great many months ago), Mary and I had made a pact to attempt to blog daily. The plan proved to be a bit too ambitious, so when we recently decided to renew our pact, we changed the terms to involve blogging just once a week. This should prove to be far easier to accomplish and probably much better as well, since we're both the type who like to put a good deal of thought and time into our entries. So here goes my second attempt at a regular blogging schedule.
My problem is the fact that I often find myself with little that I want to say. Gone are the days when I used to blog about every little occurrence, thought, or feeling that came into my head. Now I've become much more selective about what I actually want to talk about in this journal, always thinking, "Is this something anyone would even care about?" and often responding to myself with, "Probably not." Whether that is a correct answer or not, however, I may well have to modify this mental filter of mine if I'm going to fulfill my contractual obligations. Unfortunately, though there are a number of noteworthy occurrences in my life, I find that there are more topics that I DON'T want to say much about than those that I do.
For instance, I don't really want to talk very much about school, and specifically about my plans for the future, because I get asked those questions all the time by all sorts of people. I don't much care to repeat myself and for the time being, there isn't much to report. For now, I can say that I just finished my two summer classes last week and am now free until the fall semester starts in late August, which gives me the longest break I've had since enrolling at UT last summer. I also should be graduating this fall (assuming all goes as planned), and even though I've long expected this would be the case, it still feels all too soon. Certainly, once the fall semester starts up, I'll have things to say about my classes, but in general, I don't anticipate speaking too much on this subject, except when I have something particularly noteworthy to report.
I also don't like to talk much about relationships in a blog. This is largely because there are two people involved, and I generally don't like to discuss other people much in a public forum such as a blog. I'm also not the type of person to say things like, "Oh, my boyfriend is this or that" unless I'm specifically asked. Of course, a significant other tends to be a... well, significant... part of one's life and is someone whose name is likely to come up in one context or another. Thus, for those of my readers who don't already know and are curious, I should probably provide some brief background information and state that James and I met online, and since he lives in Michigan (he's a grad student there) and is a 1.5-hour drive away, we only see each other in person about once a week. We've been dating for about four months now.
Finally, I don't with to speak much about the condition of my grandfather, who has had a number of unfortunate occurrences since October, has been in constant pain, and has had to receive increasingly more and more personal care. A combination of bad luck and being almost 90 years old obviously complicates things. A lot has been happening on this front, but I won't go into any details here right now. As another one of those subjects that comes up frequently among my family, it's hard enough to speak on at those times that I don't need to dwell on it any more than I already have.
So the list of what I do find worthy of blogging about is very small, considering that the rest of my life is pretty dull and uneventful. Hopefully, in a week's time, I'll find something interesting to say. If not, you might just have to put up with me rambling about my WoW characters or something. Either way, you can just be happy to know that you might get to see me blogging once again.