The numbers don't lie...last year it was at least 20 during every month of the year, save for July, which included a holiday, a couple of vacations and a cancer scare. January and April were both over 30. This year, however, only February has been above 20, March hit an all time low of 13, and May is threatening to challenge that mark.
I am counting, of course, my monthly blog entries. The truth is that I am becoming a really bad blogger. My Google reader reports that 8 of my regular reads have posted at least 25 times in the last month against my 18 (and two of those were like one-sentence). Kristen and LPEG turned in 25 each. Jenny turned out 26, while the OEN and Cindy each thought of 27 things to say. Cindy's tend to be long, too! Aly wins the bronze medal with 29, and Airam passes the one per day threshold with 30.
The champ, by a long shot, is Jenn... the cupcake-loving Chicagoan with the adorable glasses, impressive wit and apparently hyperactive fingers. She turned out an astonishing 47 posts. My best calendar month ever was 36, and I have gone over 30 only four or five times. Not only did she write that much, but it was largely entertaining and substantial.
On another note... Billy...seriously...3 posts? You can't be that busy!!! How am I supposed to know which segment of the Houston population I should hate this week?:-P
Anyway, my point is that my productivity is lagging badly. And it is to the point where I need to stop apologizing for it and just write more. I try to write every weekday, but lately that has really not been happening...not even close. And not just when I am traveling or otherwise out of the office (and that has been happening a lot lately), but some days when I am just busy or somehow get sidetracked and never get around to posting.
For most of you, that probably makes no difference...but much of the value of this to me is as a running diary. I like to go back and remember little things I did, or things I was thinking at a certain time. Or, like last week...wonder why I decided to do something that I can now no longer remember (why the Derby trip was a secret...anyone?) And for that diary to have any usefulness, I have to...you know...well, actually write stuff.
I haven't written anything since last Wednesday, and that is just not acceptable. In fact, I had a really busy weekend that led me to a whole bunch of places (some unexpected) in a couple of different time zones. And yet, I just don't really have the energy to write it all out right now, nor will I have time tomorrow morning to do so. Which, I guess...um...what the fuck was I talking about anyway?
See...this is my issue...I am now a sucky blogger. And I need to get better at it, or just stop blogging entirely. And mostly, I need to stop complaining about not blogging and just fucking do it more often.
So, that is my goal...but it will have to wait until at least Tuesday, since I will be really busy tomorrow and Tuesday (see...excuses already...)
Sunday, May 11, 2008
The Cold Hard Accounting
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13 comments:
you have one of the best blogs going i hope thst you don't stop
I try to write as many posts as there are days in that month, but rough months when I'm in need of venting, I end up with more. Therapy is the reason I started blogging, and also the reason my earliest months have like 76 posts each.
I'm embarrassed by the length and verbosity of my posts, actually...but I type really fast so usually what I think is already recorded before I can figure out a more concise and entertaining way of wording it.
Kind of like this comment. =P
Haha ... last week I felt like I was fresh out of things to say, so I held a contest ... meaning I didn't have to blog alllll week. So don't feel so bad. :)
I don't think you're a suck blogger!
If writing becomes a chore, it's no longer fun. Just because you don't write everyday it doesn't make you a bad writer (or blogger).
I write so much because 1. I have a job that allows me to spend most of my time at my desk blogging. Very little is actually required of me there. Sure there's a few days here an there where I'm obnoxiously busy, but usually it's just me and the keyboard. 2. I'm one of those crazy people who think that whatever I have to say is important and people need to read it. Such is not the case usually, but try telling that to my hyperactive fingers :)
Write at your own pace :) Jot down little notes in case you know you won't be able to blog for a couple days and revisit them when you get a chance. At least that way they will be documented.
P.S. I love your description of me. I might use that somewhere on my blog or something.
P.S.S. (Is it P.P.S. or P.S.S.?) Anyway, I also entered Blog365 so I'm obligated by my pride to post every single day :)
You are definitely motivating me to write more today...I wrote sometime last week, but I never write on the weekends. I don't usually have time to write when I'm out of town either!
I don't put a lot of weight behind those numbers. Because if all you're doing is blogging, are you really out living? Or if you write one really long post per week to perfectly capture your life, does that make you any worse than the multi-day writers? It's all about what you write and whether you're interesting or not.
My two very small and unimportant cents.
It's funny that you mentioned this because I was just noticing how my numbers had dropped. I blame a job that eats into my social time, social time that eats into my sleeping time and sleeping time that eats into my blogging time.
Also, I've had big stuff going on. And when that happens I (weirdly) have a harder time writing about it than if nothing is going on.
Oh and summer. Summer makes me write less. Because I live in Canada. And having weather that lets you wear shorts, well that is reason enough to skip blogging.
Oh girl. Your sucky numbers don't even touch mine! I like to think of it as I was out having that much fun that I had no time whatsoever to post. At least you are doing way better than me at the moment.
And I totally blew off project365 on Flickr, and have just now decided to continue posting pictures. :)
oh don't worry about any of that stuff. blogging is great but you have to live your life to have anything to blog about anyway, don't you? we all get busy. the first thing to go with me is always the blog because it probably is the least important of my hobbies.
I love your blog, but if you didn't have such an interesting and busy life, what would you write about?
Your life comes first, we, your readers come much farther down the line.
thanks for the link :)
i have been a bad blogger this past week, not posting in over a week! because of work issues, i don't think I was even able to read anyone's either!
but i love reading your blog, and I hope you don't stop!
you are too funny.
you're not a bad blogger - you're fantastic!
sometimes i just blog a lot because i have tons on my mind and don't really want to share it (verbally) with those around me. honest, my roommate knows more about me because she reads what i've written than because of anything i ever say.
I just have no life.
:)
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