Sad, right?
I thought that in honor of the record-holding blog I'd go into my pitiful personal history with blogs.
Let us begin:
CUT!
I just skimmed through them all.
Can I just say I was ridiculous?! Because I was.
okay, ACTION!
Freshman year:
The FIRST Blog:
One of my roommates had to start a blog for a class. She started and then everyone else kind of jumped on the band wagon, myself included.
Girls, do not, I repeat, DO NOT do what I did. Remember that one time that I talked about how I'm awful at persuasive essays? Well this was a persuasive blog. May it fade into online oblivion.
I totally thought it would be my ticket to fame. *snort* Ha. If that blog had made me famous, goodness, I'd question society's sanity.
The SECOND Blog:
This blog came sometime after I stopped writing the first one (obviously.)
I only wrote 2 entries in this one. It was the summer after freshman year and again, slightly persuasive, slightly stupid. Let's just say Mom wasn't going to get famous from that blog either. Was I trying to? I don't know, it was a long time ago. I've blocked out that time (at least from the blog-writing POV).
Sophomore year:
Over Christmas break I found this website where I could write articles and stuff and get paid for it. Done! Sign me up.
So I started writing about music (I like to think I'm knowledgeable in that area...) and wrote about 40 revies/articles/interviews before I had to stop for finals.
It was kind of fun, I got to interview Jenny Oaks Baker after she got nominated for a Grammy (and subsequently lost said Grammy). I had the father of a 15-year-old girl email me about interview his daughter. I had written a spotlight on another 15-year-old girl who had made it on Billboard and the potential interviewee was in said music video. I had to decline because the 15-year-old was not the greatest of talents and I just couldn't promote her and feel good about it.
After awhile I got tired of writing the articles, maybe I pushed myself too much, put too many expectations, tried too hard. I don't know, people seemed to like what I wrote but I couldn't keep it up.
Junior year:
This year I started 2 different blogs. One for my journalism class (which bombed btw. It wasn't that great of a blog.) and a movie/tv/song review blog. Because apparently I like that kind of thing.
The entertainment blog ended because I realized I had no idea what I was doing. Besides there were better, more credible blogs out there. Ah well, I focused on creative writing and fiction. And getting ready to work at Disney.
So there you have it. My goodness, I actually keep trying with blogs. WAIT, I forgot one.
The one that I had right before this one. It was about creativity and again, it was slightly persuasive. Not so much as the first 2 but, well, okay it was fine, I just didn't write in it enough. As of write now I have 3 more page views in that blog than I do in this one, but that should be changed once this is posted. Some of those entries were fun to write, so I might copy and paste them here (that's not cheating right??) Or I might just post the links, I don't know.
I just skimmed through them all.
Can I just say I was ridiculous?! Because I was.
okay, ACTION!
Freshman year:
The FIRST Blog:
One of my roommates had to start a blog for a class. She started and then everyone else kind of jumped on the band wagon, myself included.
Girls, do not, I repeat, DO NOT do what I did. Remember that one time that I talked about how I'm awful at persuasive essays? Well this was a persuasive blog. May it fade into online oblivion.
I totally thought it would be my ticket to fame. *snort* Ha. If that blog had made me famous, goodness, I'd question society's sanity.
The SECOND Blog:
This blog came sometime after I stopped writing the first one (obviously.)
I only wrote 2 entries in this one. It was the summer after freshman year and again, slightly persuasive, slightly stupid. Let's just say Mom wasn't going to get famous from that blog either. Was I trying to? I don't know, it was a long time ago. I've blocked out that time (at least from the blog-writing POV).
Sophomore year:
Over Christmas break I found this website where I could write articles and stuff and get paid for it. Done! Sign me up.
So I started writing about music (I like to think I'm knowledgeable in that area...) and wrote about 40 revies/articles/interviews before I had to stop for finals.
It was kind of fun, I got to interview Jenny Oaks Baker after she got nominated for a Grammy (and subsequently lost said Grammy). I had the father of a 15-year-old girl email me about interview his daughter. I had written a spotlight on another 15-year-old girl who had made it on Billboard and the potential interviewee was in said music video. I had to decline because the 15-year-old was not the greatest of talents and I just couldn't promote her and feel good about it.
After awhile I got tired of writing the articles, maybe I pushed myself too much, put too many expectations, tried too hard. I don't know, people seemed to like what I wrote but I couldn't keep it up.
Junior year:
This year I started 2 different blogs. One for my journalism class (which bombed btw. It wasn't that great of a blog.) and a movie/tv/song review blog. Because apparently I like that kind of thing.
The entertainment blog ended because I realized I had no idea what I was doing. Besides there were better, more credible blogs out there. Ah well, I focused on creative writing and fiction. And getting ready to work at Disney.
So there you have it. My goodness, I actually keep trying with blogs. WAIT, I forgot one.
The one that I had right before this one. It was about creativity and again, it was slightly persuasive. Not so much as the first 2 but, well, okay it was fine, I just didn't write in it enough. As of write now I have 3 more page views in that blog than I do in this one, but that should be changed once this is posted. Some of those entries were fun to write, so I might copy and paste them here (that's not cheating right??) Or I might just post the links, I don't know.
What can we learn from this?
To paraphrase the words of Julian Smith/Jeffrey: Thisshirt blog's gonna make me famous!
I don't know, I'm like a lot of people, I want to be noticed. To the level of Perez Hilton? Hmmm, probably not. I can't pull that off.
But what I'm working on right now, it's not to become popular or famous. I'm just on the computer more than not and it's easier to include videos, pictures, etc. in a blog than say in a notebook or in a word document (yeah, I still use those). This is just between me and you girls. I haven't even posted the blog updates on Facebook or on my art page. Those other people who read this (they know who they are), they found this by pure happenstance.
To paraphrase the words of Julian Smith/Jeffrey: This
I don't know, I'm like a lot of people, I want to be noticed. To the level of Perez Hilton? Hmmm, probably not. I can't pull that off.
But what I'm working on right now, it's not to become popular or famous. I'm just on the computer more than not and it's easier to include videos, pictures, etc. in a blog than say in a notebook or in a word document (yeah, I still use those). This is just between me and you girls. I haven't even posted the blog updates on Facebook or on my art page. Those other people who read this (they know who they are), they found this by pure happenstance.
Actually that title makes me think of a sign I found in this chocolates shop in Pier 39 (yes, 39) in San Francisco. (This is not that sign, that sign was cuter.)
Well girls, till tomorrow.
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