It's been 4 months since my last confession...oh wait...I meant "since my last blog
It seems that I have not written a blog for a while. I have been swallowed up in the whole disconnect from anything but quick expression that is Facebook and Twitter. I have recently discovered OpenSalon.com and have written one blog there already. It wasn't great but it wasn't terrible considering the original version of it was much longer and better but was lost in a posting accident. I have been sucked in by microblogging and my wakeup call was my friend Arleen Spenceley's article in the St. Petersburg Times, "Why I Unfriended Facebook." <http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/essays/why-i-unfriended-facebook/1085798> I also watched Julie/Julia and realized that I miss writing blogs. All of this microblogging was out of control, but hey, at least I write blogs on Livejournal all the time. And then I realized...I hadn't written a blog on Livejournal or just about any other site in months. A year ago tonight I was sitting in a hospital room at an E.R. not knowing if I was going to make it to the next day. But I made it through. And what have I done in the last year? I have become more disconnected.
Three months ago I quit caffeine. It was literally killing me because of my problems with hypertension. Sitting there one morning having to borrow a nitro patch just to keep from getting to dangerous levels was the last straw. That was January 21st, 2010, the same day that Burn Notice came back on. That should have been a blog. I've been working with my dog on all sorts of training. Those should have been blogs. I have recently joined the Food Revolution. I was already having to make all of those changes but Jamie Oliver came out with that show and showed America that they could do it too. That should have been a blog or a series of blogs.
And then there's the fiction book I'm writing. In a years time, I've hardly written anything. I picked up a magazine the other day and wasn't going to buy it. Something told me that I needed to buy it. I got bored one day and started reading an article that I thought wouldn't be that important. But I was wrong. In the article it told how to get rid of writer's block and how to deal with being both an editor and a writer and how to deal with the conflict between the 2 different jobs. It said that you should do 3 pages of stream of consciousness writing every morning. So I'm taking that approach with this blog.
I have so much to write about and I need to get back on track. I need to write again. And suddenly I realize: I'm making myself write again. Suddenly I realize that was was just writing a stream of consciousness but now I've written this blog. And just like that I am writing again. Now I just need to apply that to the book.
Justin
It seems that I have not written a blog for a while. I have been swallowed up in the whole disconnect from anything but quick expression that is Facebook and Twitter. I have recently discovered OpenSalon.com and have written one blog there already. It wasn't great but it wasn't terrible considering the original version of it was much longer and better but was lost in a posting accident. I have been sucked in by microblogging and my wakeup call was my friend Arleen Spenceley's article in the St. Petersburg Times, "Why I Unfriended Facebook." <http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/essays/why-i-unfriended-facebook/1085798> I also watched Julie/Julia and realized that I miss writing blogs. All of this microblogging was out of control, but hey, at least I write blogs on Livejournal all the time. And then I realized...I hadn't written a blog on Livejournal or just about any other site in months. A year ago tonight I was sitting in a hospital room at an E.R. not knowing if I was going to make it to the next day. But I made it through. And what have I done in the last year? I have become more disconnected.
Three months ago I quit caffeine. It was literally killing me because of my problems with hypertension. Sitting there one morning having to borrow a nitro patch just to keep from getting to dangerous levels was the last straw. That was January 21st, 2010, the same day that Burn Notice came back on. That should have been a blog. I've been working with my dog on all sorts of training. Those should have been blogs. I have recently joined the Food Revolution. I was already having to make all of those changes but Jamie Oliver came out with that show and showed America that they could do it too. That should have been a blog or a series of blogs.
And then there's the fiction book I'm writing. In a years time, I've hardly written anything. I picked up a magazine the other day and wasn't going to buy it. Something told me that I needed to buy it. I got bored one day and started reading an article that I thought wouldn't be that important. But I was wrong. In the article it told how to get rid of writer's block and how to deal with being both an editor and a writer and how to deal with the conflict between the 2 different jobs. It said that you should do 3 pages of stream of consciousness writing every morning. So I'm taking that approach with this blog.
I have so much to write about and I need to get back on track. I need to write again. And suddenly I realize: I'm making myself write again. Suddenly I realize that was was just writing a stream of consciousness but now I've written this blog. And just like that I am writing again. Now I just need to apply that to the book.
Justin
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