superupdate!!
Right, so turns out I eat dinner pretty quickly. I'd like to say I had the pending post in my mind and it drove me to stuff my face, but that's not true, and we all know that everything published online must be true....
Look at me digressing...anyway, from here on, this entry will be the one I started to type about 45 minutes ago, the only difference being that I will now finish it. :D (also, I feel happy because this could be considered two posts in the same day).
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"Old habits die hard."
How I hate the truth of this statement. I almost fell back into my
non-updating state. I previously posed the question about whether this
would become a daily-updated blog or one that only has new entries soon
after significant events have transpired. I think my indecision made me
inadvertently lean toward the latter, and it subsequently became very
easy to rationalize delaying new posts. This realization, combined with
my recent epiphany that I had put off posting for 1 year, makes me want
to post every day. I hope that this will force me to update more
regularly, even if I don't fulfill the everyday ideal.
That being said, this post is not the materialization of the promise I
put out in the previous "recovery" post. In terms of updates, I have a couple of
things running behind this blog. In one text file, I'm pulling together
my [overly] comprehensive review of Iron Man; normally I
express my thoughts on any movie I've seen on the appropriate
application on my facebook, but it turns out theres a character cap,
and theres a number of things I wanted to say on the movie (yes, I absolutely loved it) and I could not do so in so few words. Maybe I'll post it here when I'm done (and yes, it has occured to me that most people would have already seen it by the time I am finished, making the review slightly less captivating). Secondly, and more relevantly, I have another running text file in which I'm organizing things from the course of the past year, things that should have been covered in my blog. This might end up taking even longer than the movie review, but it will be the fulfillment of that promise I made in the last [significant] entry. I settled on this method of covering the past year (as opposed to getting it out of the way directly on Vox) because I didn't want it to become a crutch. I could picture myself continuing to put off updating regularly about present events, citing the fact that I had not yet accounted for the past year. Very quickly thereafter, I would find myself following the same slackblog trend that I've fallen for so many times before; namely, not blogging at all.
Sooooo, the way things should work from this point forward is that I will be updating about present, and most likely awesome (due to the nature of summer break), events on something that is close to a daily basis. At some point in the future, you will also see my Iron Man review post, as well as my "recap" post. If it turns out that the "recap" post never becomes more than a work-in-progress (in which case, ironically, there is no progress), there should not be anything to worry about. Really, outside of sentimental, and any other, value I've placed on this special entry, it's not actually truly necessary. The only time its absence would affect my extremely small readership (you) is if something came up in the course of my discourse that refers back to things I learned or experienced or found this past year. If both of these things happen (I give up on my cohesive "recap" post as well as find the need to refer to something that would have been in that entry), I'll just take time in the present entry to explain the antecedent to whatever extent is necessary.
Feels good to get that off my chest. Whenever I write, I feel like I must fully explain the point of discussion, or else it's not worth writing in the first place. It could be said that this quirk is very closely related to my thoughts on "all or nothing" haircuts. Maybe at a different time I will figure out what aspects of me "all or nothing" applies to. Anyway, hopefully regular updates will help focus my style; I don't think that the compulsion for full explanation is bad, but if there's a way to do it without rambling so much, this way might be better. I don't think I'll be taking any real English classes for the rest of my life (i.e. Technical Writing doesn't count), and I'd hate to see all the skills I developed from AP English in highschool go to waste. Just another point of motivation for me to strive for daily updates.
Now, almost as a counterpoint, there's one last issue before I sign off; despite what looks like a the beginnings of a successful effort to maintain a blog, I'm missing one crucial thing: actual content. Indeed, the last time I actually wrote about events occurring was during the Las Vegas series; everything else has consisted of either apologies for not posting or promises that I will be posting (with content). Even this post, perhaps my first real full entry in terms of length and structure, talks about what will happen on this blog in the future. Accordingly, the only remedy for this turning into a blog about a blog is inject some content. The next post will be a complete reversal. I'll spend the vast majority covering events that have happened so far this summer, and only a little, if any, time on the nature of things to come. Wish me luck.
