Friday Five
From the friday five:
1. Explain why you started to journal/blog.
All the cool kids were doing it. And also Utech.
The non-comedic reason is that I used to journal and now I don’t and I wish I still did. My senior year of high school my senior comp teacher, Ms. Holcomb, required us to keep a journal. We had some assignments of topics to write about or places to write, but beyond that it was just for us, as personal as it wanted to be. I filled 3 notebooks and cherish the memories. I pretty much stopped the day I graduated high school. When I studied abroad in Wales, I started back up with a couple of travel journals I had received as gifts before I left. I wrote every day, all over the UK and a few places in Europe. I also cherish all those memories and entries. But I again stopped writing pretty much the day I stepped off the plane stateside.
I’m wordy. Every time since that I’ve tried to journal, I just fail miserably. I have about 5 blank journals and one that I started over 2 years ago that I’ve made about 5 entries in. My insanely anal-retentive side takes over and I feel like I need to write about every moment of my life between entries for the journal to be complete. Case in point: it took me almost 6 months to finish my entry about the 9/11 attacks and the days following. And I only wrote about three pages and included some clippings and such. I wouldn’t let myself write about anything else until I finished it, and it wasn’t like I personally was particularly tramatized by the events, I just wanted to get the details down for posterity. But this mentality leads me to never really write anything current, I’m always going back and filling in the gaps. I some how feel like I’m doing myself a diservice to not put down every moment. Needless to say, its a problem.
And this brings me to my attempt at a blog/journal/whatever. And I must admit, I’m already fighting the “gotta say everything or nothing” demon. It took me a week after having the hiccups to write about them just because I kept putting it off. [Procrastination is also a problem in my life - put I'll put off writing about that until another day.] So I’m attempting to be a bit more in the “now” and just post whatever. Its not like I’m not at my computer pretty much every day all the time, which lends itself to way less excuses then having to find my journal and select a pen.
Did I mention I’m wordy?
2. Do people you interact with day to day or family members know about your journal/blog? Why or why not?
Some of my friends know, but I haven’t told any of my family or made any big announcement.
As for why not, I’m not sure. Maybe because this journal is mostly for me, or at least that’s what I’m telling myself. Possibly, its because I’m afraid one day I’m going to write something scathing about a friend or family member in the heat of the moment and stir up something bad. Or it might just be because I’m a procrastinator and haven’t gotten around to it.
3. Do you have a theme for your journal/blog?
Is randomness a theme? Is it even a word?
4. What direction would you like to have your journal/blog go in over the next year?
I’m content with being directionless as long as I’m posting consistantly
5. Pimp five of your favorite journals/blogs.
Well, I only read 5 regularly, so here they are:
Jerry and Sara Steele
Stranger in a Strange Land
Walking Under Chandeliers
Wil Wheaton
Dave Barry
Just a note to say hello to a fellow friday Fiver, I like the theme Randominess, now why didn’t I think of that!