September 12, 2008 : Hiatus
Don’t know what to do with this place, again. Sigh.
September 1, 2008 : Back-to-school season
A post to kick-off the start of September - whoops, I ended up disappearing for more than a month. Actually, most of the time I like to pretend that the month of August just doesn’t exist. August, with its back-to-school sales and all the inescapable chipper advertising it entails (”everything you need for the brand new school year!” “new fall clothes for the kids! and the entire family!”) and newspapers and commercials and sales sales sales hyping up the start of the school year as something fun and exciting and all about buying new crayons!!, always always irritates me and makes me cringe.
(I think I’m just bitter that I’m not in elementary school anymore. That might be it. I know I sound so bitter.)
It’s like the sole reason for the existence of August is to remind us that summer’s almost over and it’s time to go back to, you know, learning. Hard-work-type stuff. Last minute paper-writing hack jobs. All-nighters and panda eyes.
If August is only the month of dread leading up to all of that, then September must be even worse. I wonder how I go through with this year after year. Every year it just seems to grow more and more tiring, as I get older and older and school becomes more and more about the Serious Business and not about mummifying stuffed animals for the Egyptian unit in social studies.
I wonder if this still counts as Monday Blues, when it’s a holiday today.
July 24, 2008 : Finally, a splash of color!
Uhh why is it that it seems like I just installed the latest version of Wordpress, and now there’s this banner on my admin dashboard urging me to update to the even more cutting-edge version 2.6? I think if I attempted to do that, I’d probably wipe out all my posts again (all 3 of them), and honestly I’m just too lazy.
But I did get around to…adding colored links. And activating this theme’s built-in flickr app. But I’m really not much of a photographer, so I wonder how long those pictures will stay up before I change my mind. And those preview images look kind of pixelated, right, because of the dimension-crunching? Pixelated anything kind of makes me cringe.
July 16, 2008 : To-do list
I’ve been really tired lately with my summer course (sigh) and so brain dead that I haven’t been keeping up with online stuff in a while. Once again my plans have been thwarted - each summer I set out to read, write, watch…and of course nothing has gotten done! le sigh:
- the mile-high stack of books which has been building up since 10th grade remains mile-high
- the blog is virtually empty
- and, the only Best Picture Nominee from the 2006 Oscars I’ve seen so far is Good Night, and Good Luck.
You see, I’ve had this list around since 2005! I’m still trying to watch movies I never actually got around to see during that year for some reason, but most of the time I don’t even remember what those films were (…), so I use that year’s Oscar movies as a reference list…Except I don’t even remember what the nominees were for that year anymore, and I only watched GN, GL. because it was a school assignment - funny, I’ll watch school-assigned movies and opt out on school-assigned reading materials. Well, which do you think is easier on the attention span eyes? Okay, I kid. But seriously, Good Night, and Good Luck. is so gorgeous, and not just because of the existence of George Clooney.
(I’m still trying to work on the site design a little/getting the pages up - right now everything is soo plain!)
July 2, 2008 : Relaunched
Because I am so skilled, while in the process of updating my Wordpress from a decrepit 2.1.something version to something a bit more recent, I ended up accidentally not so intelligently re-installing the whole thing and losing all my old posts. (Well they’re still floating around somewhere, but I’d rather not track them down…)
This means I’m starting from scratch again. I’ve abandoned/stopped and reopened my blog so many times that sometimes I think I should just give up, but then I remember my #1 New Year’s Resolution this year was “blog more”! Except usually no one keeps their resolutions. (shh!)
Anyway, I’ve been blogging here and there since at least 2003, paper journaling on and off since forever, so I think even if I quit, I’ll eventually come back. There’s always something to talk about, no matter how banal it may be! (read: it may only interest me) I think my problem lately has been that I keep trying to write with a specific audience in mind and trying to make everything as interesting as possible, and then nothing gets written because I’m in a box. But of course if you just write whatever you want, then things come more naturally, and more easily, and then it’s probably more pleasant for everyone.
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