DNC Report: Day 3
Posted on | August 28, 2008 at 5:58 am | 5 Comments
I still don’t have anything to report on the Democratic National Convention. I was going to walk downtown with my camera during lunch yesterday, but I didn’t have time. Maybe today. I still haven’t caught Jon Stewart or John Oliver wandering aimlessly around town, or Oprah eating at Benny’s. And I really haven’t even been inconvenienced much. The commute has actually been better this week than it was last week. I think that’s because people are staying off the roads to avoid the closures and disruptions. Woo hoo! More asphalt for the rest of us. Anyway, I enjoyed Joe Biden’s speech last night, and ol’ Billy Boy Clinton wowed the crowd, as usual. He sure knows how to work ‘em into a frenzy. Makes me remember the good old days when a President could actually… you know… talk.
I didn’t prepare much in the way of blog topics this week because I thought I’d have more to write about the DNC. Or at least some pictures to post. But it’s not turning out that way. Or maybe I’m just burned out. Sue alerted us all to this interesting article about blogger burnout. It talks about how people who blog daily (or more) often suffer from stress and other issues caused by the eternal pressure to keep posting. (Maybe those people need to read my 20 Tips for Daily Blogging!) Of course, they’re mostly talking about “professional bloggers”, people who actually have something to say and who have lots of readers/commenters, rather than the amateurs like myself who really have nothing to say but just keep up the daily blogging for personal or OCD reasons. But hey, we experience the same sorts of issues as the professionals. Maybe even more, because a lot of those people do blogging as their jobs, or at least their source of income. Whereas I’m just doing it in my spare time for no revenue whatsoever. Sure, the stress is internal and self-imposed and I can quit or rest any time I like (really, I can!), but that doesn’t make it any less real.
I like this quote:
“I never can post something and say I’m done for the day,” said Zuniga, “because I’m always thinking about the next post.”
That’s totally true for me. It seems like I can never derive enough satisfaction from posting an entry, because right away I’m thinking about what I’m going to write for the next one, and how soon I’ll have to be doing that. I think I must be paying for something bad I did in a former life.
Latre.
Props of the Day: I’ve been noticing a new series of RTD advertisements on the back of their buses lately which are interesting. One had an Albert Einstein quote about thinking in new ways, which I’m too lazy to look up right now. But my favorite one says “If you can read this, you’re in the wrong vehicle”*. Cute! The problem is, I get so wrapped up in enjoying the ads I forget to drive properly. I don’t want a repeat of my December incident!
* – This doesn’t work if you’re reading it from another bus!
Videogame(s) Played Yesterday: Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin (DS)
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5 Responses to “DNC Report: Day 3”
August 28th, 2008 @ 8:43 am
I’ve been on vacation this week, and I’ve noticed daily blogging is pretty easy when you don’t have to go to work. I’ve reached the conclusion that many people’s work schedule is having a detrimental impact on their blogging.
August 28th, 2008 @ 5:11 pm
> right away I’m thinking about what I’m going to write for the next one
What ARE you going to write for the next one? Maybe if you wrote about tomorrow each day you’d feel more relaxed.
August 28th, 2008 @ 7:09 pm
Props on your DNC coverage. It’s easily as informative as MSNBC.
August 28th, 2008 @ 10:38 pm
Props on your DNC coverage.
Just wait until tomorrow’s report!
August 29th, 2008 @ 6:18 am
Informative schminformative.
I tuned in to Ms. NBC to catch some of that 3-way snipe-fest between Chris Matthews, Joe Scarborough, and Kieth Olbermann!