Segue? What's That?

Welcome to the most random and disjointed post EVER. Transitions are meaningless today. We’re all about quantity – just getting as much info out there as possible. It doesn’t matter that nothing I’m talking about relates to anything else I’m talking about.

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Did you notice the blogolicious makeover? No real reason for it, except a desire to look at something new for a while. The previous green was awfully bright, and I was ready for something a little more subdued, while sticking to the green color scheme. I’m pretty pleased with it – what do you think?

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I have a confession to make: I love countdown shows. All those stupid VH1 shows? “101 Biggest Celebrity Oops.” “50 Most Outrageous TV Moments.” Or on TVLand – “100 Greatest TV Quotes and Catch Phrases.” And of course, the classics of AFI: Heroes and Villains, Film Scores, Memorable Quotes (go Casablanca!), or Best Movies of All Time. I will shamelessly watch them over and over and over and over…

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Sometimes my kids catch me off-guard in their essays, when I’m reading innocently along and I find something that speaks to me so directly I wonder if they don’t know much more about my personal life than they let on. Yesterday, while grading papers, I read this:

“No one and nothing can force happiness or peace. To be at peace with one’s self, forgiveness need to be stablish. Forgiveness of pass mistakes are only given by you alone. If you comit something bad and someone gets hurt emotionaly or physicly and apologies are made and accepted, you still trouble by your mistake the forgiveness of other people does not give peace of mind but it helps you forgive yourself of your wrong doingings.”

Horrendous grammar and spelling aside, his thoughts aren’t bad. And probably what I need to hear these days.

Of course, in the very next essay, I read the most profound student sentence ever: “Nothing is just nothing, but something is everything.” Wow. Deep. No, wait - the most profound is still this one: “If you’re a hobo with no friends, I think of that as absolutely no success. But if you’re a friendly hobo, then that is success, but not much.”

Keep that in mind, y’all.

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Metablognition anyone? First of all, after my first Thursday Thirteen yesterday, I have to say that I really liked it! All the people are so nice and friendly, and it’s a good way to organize thoughts on a given subject. But apparently, Thursday Thirteen is not the only weekly meme out there. Some of you are probably thinking, “Duh!” But I didn’t realize. They aren’t all that great, but one in particular sounds good for me. Wordless Wednesday is basically the quickest and easiest meme ever: You put up a picture, title it, and… that’s all. No describing it, no discussing it. Just let the people admire it. I like this one. In fact, when school starts getting really busy, maybe it’ll be time to do this a few times a week. Half-photoblog, half-rambling? What do you guys think?

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Speaking of the ultimate time vacuum of my school, I started back at my high school this week, and my university classes start up next week. So I can’t promise the daily posts will be able to continue for much longer. Maybe they will – who knows? But if they do, you can expect they’ll be quicker posts, less substance, and probably more whiny. Or, like I said, maybe more photos and less text.

Along with my worries about time management with my own blog, however, comes a concern about the other blogs I read. I now have three full tabs of blogs on my personalized Google page. I’m beginning to get to the point where I struggle to read the posts every day. Is it time to cut out some of the blogs I read? Who appreciates my readership enough that I should keep reading? That is to say, who notices and appreciates my comments, the time I spend reading and thinking about the posts? Also, whose writing do I appreciate enough that I should keep reading, even if they completely ignore me as a reader? Who doesn’t even notice that I read AND isn’t very interesting? (Well, if I had any of those I wouldn’t be reading them in the first place.) I don’t want to have to give up my reading and commenting, but it’s very time-consuming, and I do need to prioritize school over blogs (sad though that is). We’ll see what happens.

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Still with me after all that disconnected babbling? Awesome!

Day 5 of SaBloBoMo: The Book of Questions by Gregory Stock

As long as we’ve had a totally random post anyway, how about some random questions? #142: “What, if anything, is too serious to be joked about?” #84: “Would you have one of your fingers surgically removed if it somehow guaranteed immunity from all major diseases?” #217: “If you were guaranteed honest responses to any three questions, who would you question and what would you ask?” And so on and so forth. It’s a fun book to read through and think about your own answers, but the book is really designed to learn more about other people. Ask your friends to learn their deepest secrets. Ask a family member to learn something totally new and surprising. Ask an acquaintance to decide if this person is someone in whose presence you should fear being alone. It’s a tremendously fun book to have around. Just for shiggles.