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06.08.04 10:51 PM
why i don't write (here)
in case you're wondering, there are many reasons why this blog doesn't function on the daily as it once did...
1. i have a job that requires me to pay more attention to detail (including other people's writing) than is humanly possible for one person to manage
2. since jan. i have been out of town for at least one week per month, excluding may
3. i teach a course once a week for which i have to prepare lectures (because i never teach it the same way twice) and read students' papers
4. i scan through several hundred emails per day - often from two job-related email addys, three personal email addys, and one teaching-related one (let's not mention the phone calls i have to return or the IMs i respond to or the other blogs i hardly get to read)
5. i had to revise my submission for an anthology that i will have an essay appear in
6. i am desperately trying to focus on a proposal for a book idea that was discussed with an editor at an acadmic publisher over a year ago - in hopes that she's still interested
7. i write a digital music column for a magazine
8. i'm trying to tone my body, improve my health, and maintain my spiritual foundation
9. i'm working on figuring out my purpose in life - or at least my next move, as in reinvention of self to best utilize my gifts
10. i'm still loving being in a relationship that has existed for two years - and it requires the lack of free time that i have
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...let's not forget the late nights. i'm hoping you're resting.
it's all good though. we'll be waiting for you when you've got time. and that other thing? well, i'm going to have to do my assignment my way. ;-)
posted by ej | June 9, 2004 8:25 AM #
Anyone that puts their blog or "i-net journal" at the top of their list of priorities is seriously messed up. You have a life, a "real" life. Live it. Not mad at all.
posted by nOva | June 9, 2004 3:17 PM #
maybe you should blog those things you're involved in. Short, blurb posts like what Choire does. Peep an example here: http://www.choiresicha.com
posted by Hashim | June 9, 2004 5:22 PM #
hashim - that would make sense considering the blog is called diary/a day in a life - just sometimes i'm too tired to blog about my life or don't even have the words to express my life
posted by lynne | June 9, 2004 9:16 PM #
wow...i thought i was busy. it is tough at time when you start your blog off with great momentum and then you get sidetracked by life's happenings.
posted by James | June 10, 2004 10:37 AM #
Lynne I just saw a post on Danyel's site that is a great snippet of what makes an online diary great. In a few sentences she sums up her day and it's so "not important" yet so interesting.
See:
nakedcartwheels.blogspot.com/2005/03/friday.html
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