Showing posts with label blogging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogging. Show all posts

2.13.2009

Don't hit that button!!

Here's my approach to blogging:

1. I wake up each morning with a nagging conscience because I haven't the foggiest notion what to offer you as a legitimate post. However, I know better than to even start to think about subject matter before becoming properly caffeinated. So, I drink one, two, or three cups of coffee before opening up my Mac and staring at a blank document.

2. This goes on 20-30 minutes before my fingers start to do their thing.

3. I read over the final post exactly one time before I hit the "Publish" button. I realize my post probably contains all sorts of ugly grammatical constructions and typographical errors. Still, I've never really considered blogging as a form of publishing anything. So, it really doesn't matter.

Or, does it?

4. I feel guilty about my laziness, go back to the site, and read it again. I spend the next 20 minutes correcting and editing my original post, all the while wishing you hadn't read the first draft. It wasn't worthy of you.

5. A few hours later, I get another nagging feeling about the day's post. It's still not right. I realize I made other blunders and decide to save myself from further embarrassment. I go back to the post and make even more edits, realizing all the while I am not a writer and my posts are never going to be perfect.

6. I close my Mac out of an utter feeling of pointlessness.

7. I wake up the next morning and repeat steps 1-6.

What's your approach to blogging?

9.28.2008

Parting is such sweet sorrow

I just wanted to send a shout-out to my fellow expatriate bloggers, who attend the 4th Annual Whiney Expat Blogger Weekend in Bremen. Max and I (and Charlie) thoroughly enjoyed meeting everyone and wish we could have made the farewell brunch this morning.

Even though this was the first organized blogger gathering I had ever attended, I never once felt as though I was meeting a group of strangers. Perhaps, part of this is the result of blogging--where virtually and with words each of your distinct voices and personalities shines through. Part of it could also be that, through our experiences as expatriates in Germany, we not only share a common bond, but also have become open to new and diverse personalities.

Whatever the reason--you people--Andrea, G, Yelli, Claire, headbang8, J, CN, Jen, Christina, Alice, Kim, Adam, Snooker, Cliff and Sara, and PapaScott--all rock! I only wish I had been given more hours in the day to get to know each of you better-- hopefully, next year.

I look forward to the opportunity to see you all again. On behalf of Max and Charlie: If you ever find yourself in the Rhineland Pfalz, please don't hesitate to look us up.

Special thanks to Claire who did an amazing job organizing and hosting the event. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

8.26.2008

Happiness is...



Zero (count 'em zero) items to be read in my Google reader. With 130 subscriptions, I know it won't last. But let me revel in this moment, will ya?