Meta-Bloggery

Happy International Weblogger’s Day,
to one and all!

I wish an especially great day to those new and interesting comrades I have met via blogging - Amanda, LaTina Marie, Ron, Running24k (who’s mother, I believe was either a jogger or a super computer, hence the name), and many others found on the link list below.

I am very happy to get to know you, and always look forward to hearing from you, in my dank PhD-study-ridden cave.

In fact, I find that I have more in common with the folks I have selected via blogging than many of the people I have known in “real life.” This discovery was a pleasant surprise – variety always pleases a cheapskate.

I will not go into all the reasons I blog, as I have done that already.

However, I will add again that, no, I do not blog because I think people particularly wish to hear about my life (as it even stultifies me at times, and I can only imagine how it reads), but, rather, because I like to record things for memory, and because I am self-indulgent slob, as my generation has trained me to be.

I would love to say something noble and witty about my blogging habit. Something like, “Blogs would be the first thing to be banned by the fascists, so I blog to keep alive the spirit of la Resistance!” However, while this may be true of why I always participate with my Union, it is not true of blogging. (Besides, I am very sure that the fascists would find some way to make perfect and terrifying use of blogs themselves.)

I really am just self-absorbed and egomaniacal. That is the very, very sad truth.

Oh, and it is cheaper than therapy; that previous acknowledgement would have cost thousands of dollars and 16 years, had I been using a flesh-shrink.

E-shrink is both economically possible and quicker.

So, happy blogging day to all, and to all a good blogging night!

(And a special e-hug to my blogging mentor and partner.)