Dear World,
Please read everything I say in here, because I need the world to know my thoughts…
Dear World,
I just write whatever I write in here for therapeutic purposes. I “explore” my thoughts. I vent. I mock. I share pictures of dogs and cats….
When I see that a “real” blogger puts a link on his page to this page, it takes me aback. Define “real” blogger, Toastie. I don’t know… He writes about substantive things in an articulate, thoughtful manner. He doesn’t litter his blog with trivial nonsense nor does he spew bile when he’s angry and has a point to make. When you see that he’s got a new entry, you look forward to it, because you’re probably going to learn something, or you’re going to start thinking critically about an issue.
I, on the other hand, am not a real blogger. This would be a good occasion to repeat something that I’m sure I’ve written about before, for only a…mildly disturbed individual would bother to read all of my entries. This blog is simply a continuation of a “journal”, a journal I’ve kept for…18 years now.
There are the notebooks and computer files that take me from 1989 all the way up until 2003. These writings are all private, and while I consider opening up the vaults from time to time, I suspect they’ll remain private for at least the near term. Then in late 2003, the LiveJournal experiment began. Most of my thoughts wound up as “friends-only” posts, where “friends” refers to people I may have known in the material world, but also to individuals I’ve never met and will never meet. Some thoughts, I made public. Over time, I’d change my mind often regarding where I’d draw that public/private line. I’ve never been consistent. And so, if you are to browser some old entries, you might learn some startling things about me. I don’t really know what’s in there. There are still some 800-900 “uncategorized” public entries, as all of the LiveJournal public entries have been ported over here to Toastiest.
In 2007, I’m still posting to LiveJournal, but the entries there are not public; they are of personal nature, at least more than whatever I’m posting here.
I moved off of LiveJournal for public thoughts for a few reasons. I’m getting sleepy now, so I’m not going to get into them right now.
This metablogging post could go on for awhile, but it can’t. I really need to get my performance evaluation for work in to my supervisor. (Yes, I have to do this at 12:10AM; it cannot wait).
I didn’t really get to my point. My point I was intending to get to was just that the subject of metablogging has come up in a couple of the local blogs, and I cannot really define precisely what my purpose and motivation are for writing this, nor can I define what this is. (I can’t even figure out if I should adopt a style of using one space or two in between sentences). This website simply is what it is.