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July 08, 2005
I think too much. It's all part of my charm, nu?
So I've been thinking a lot (what else is new) about whether I should bother with this site. It would seem, with my tendency to reveal more about myself than is appropriate, that I'd be the perfect candidate for this sort of thing. I've always sort of wondered why it is that ever since personal websites changed from angsty journals and photo collections and long bios circa 1997 to this whole "blog" format, my websites have felt out of place.
I finally figured it out.
It would seem that in the new blogging world, you either have to talk about terribly embarrasing stuff relating to your use of the bathroom and your encounters with alcohol or you have to make fun of people. Well, I'm not really into talking about my bathroom usage with anyone but my wife, I don't drink enough alcohol to have any stories to tell, and dammit, I want to be nice. Sickeningly, abnormally nice. Every single time I mock someone, no matter how gently, no matter how privately, I feel an awful, plaguing Jewish guilt over being a bad Minnesotan/Feldman.
I can't do either of those things. Even when I think of something funny to say, I have guilt ten seconds later and delete it. But since I'm about to move away from my family and friends -- probably for good this time -- and since I'm about to have no one to spill my guts to all the time, I think I'll keep doing this. Maybe this will encourage me to have adventures to post about once we get to Oberlin.
Now I just need to learn how to make this Movable Type stuff look pretty.
Posted to Miscellaneous at July 8, 2005 01:52 AM