No New Words
Posted on | April 26, 2007 at 12:48 pm | 12 Comments
I was going to coin the term “sablogatical” (or “sabblogatical”?) to mean taking a temporary vacation from blogging, but I see there are a few other mentions of the term out there on the Interwebs. Nevertheless, I’m making it my own.
I’m not on a real vacation or anything, it’s just a combination of having too many other things to do (the additional commute time to the new office is not helping matters), not having anything I really need to say, and getting partially burned out by the post-a-day thing I stuck to for almost two months. I just got out of the routine of doing it every day. Those breaks in routine are always dangerous for me. Besides, the tire comment thread was too long and exciting – I don’t want to displace it.
I should get back into full-time blogging soon. Just need to psyche myself up and use some of the old willpower… Yep, just need willpower. Please, don’t send any cash or gift baskets. I need to do this on my own.
The ironic thing is that I’m finally keeping the DateBk6 Daily Journal in my PDA up to date. It’s pretty dull though, even for me. Wow, I eat a lot of turkey sandwiches and I go to bed too late. (Oh well, at least I’m not on Twitter.)
Latre.
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12 Responses to “No New Words”
April 26th, 2007 @ 8:56 pm
When all else fails, start a flamewar –
…the next person to post a comment here is a #$%*^& communist! That’s right, I’m calling you out – don’t like it? Go back to Ecuador, pussy, we don’t serve your kind here.
April 26th, 2007 @ 10:42 pm
Well, you’ve finally found a word uglier than “blog” itself…
April 27th, 2007 @ 10:57 am
Come back soon, Flasshe!
April 27th, 2007 @ 6:21 pm
Come back soon, Flasshe!
Thanks trixie, but I ain’t goin’ nowhere. Just need to get meself back in the groove!
April 27th, 2007 @ 9:16 pm
Enjoy the break. I’ve been so impressed (I guess the kids would say “blown away”) by your daily posting performance. Geez, if I could manage to read daily.
This post’s heading, btw, caught me by surprise – it served as a long-ago sappy catchphrase between me and a long-ago boyfriend (I believe regarding the impossibility of describing the wonderment of our relationship), a phrase that, just as well, I haven’t contemplated for over 15 years and it just knocked me down when I saw it on the feed today.
April 27th, 2007 @ 9:33 pm
I don’t get Twitter. but then I have never been hip.
April 27th, 2007 @ 9:47 pm
I’d never *heard* of Twitter…but it seems to me someone should fill it with post after post of “I’m typing a response in the Twitter window.” That’ll larn ‘em.
April 27th, 2007 @ 10:27 pm
Twitter strikes me as the ultimate in self absorption. Why would anyone else care what I was doing at that exact moment? But then I’m also all about self absorption, so whom am I to denigrate it?
BTW, right now I’m replying to a comment in my own blog.
April 28th, 2007 @ 1:34 am
So, no one’s up for the flamewar, not even that ninny-sniffing puddle puncher 2fs? Typical of what I’ve come to expect from the, ah, ‘less carbonated’ types…
April 28th, 2007 @ 5:23 am
Really and truly, Rog, responding to a comment in one’s own blog is honorably and sufficiently self-absorbed. I haven’t been able to overcome my gut feeling that Twitter is a total waste of self-absorption. Even though some professional colleagues are trying to tell me it’s a great tool for libraries! I’m more along these lines myself.
April 28th, 2007 @ 9:01 am
Ben, your trollish behavior on the FlasshePoint Boards is going to get you exiled to AOL (does that even still exist any more?) if you don’t watch it! Actually, I’m working on a new WordPress plugin that will turn your comments into pictures of cute, fluffy kittens.
Janet, sorry your comment had to await moderation, but WordPress thinks you’re a bad, bad person if you put too many links in a comment.
Really, I’m surprised (or not) that Twitter has any legitimacy at all in any professional settings. But I have to admit I heard about it first from someone I idolize, so it can’t be all bad. Though even he says that he doesn’t really get it either.
Okay, I got up way too late this morning and I think I still need to try to run even though it’s really warm and there’s that pesky sun thing up in the sky going on. If I were on Twitter, I’d text a msg from the halfway point.
April 28th, 2007 @ 11:26 am
Well, they’d better be REALLY cute kittens…