[ neoblogical ]

Well, my blog has been a dismal failure… because I never blog. I’ve been so busy as a Ph.D. student and part-time instructor, I haven’t had time. One could argue that I should have been using my blog as a way to be reflective in my studies and teaching. I’d have to agree. I haven’t been reflective enough. I have had to be reflective in classes through reading journals and things like that, but I have been missing out on the blogging experience I set out for. I do need to start blogging to start
clarifying my research thinking, and I need to do the same for my teaching thoughts. I really need to be journaling in both areas. In fact, I’m being quite hypocritical given my belief in writing and journaling (my pen and paper journal has been suffering, too).

And now, I’ve been hired full-time at North Georgia College and State University, teaching an overload. For some reason, becoming suddenly busier is driving me back to my blog. I remember a music professor once told me that when he wanted to get something done, he always picked the busiest students he new to ask for volunteers (he was the band director at Georgia Southwestern University, and I was in the band, editing the school newspaper, etc.). His theory was that they had no time to waste and would get things done faster. So maybe there’s a little something in his thought. The busier I get, the more I seem to do a number of things with newfound discipline. We’ll see. If this is the only post here for the the next six months, then whatever.

But beyond being busy, this new tool I’ve found, ScribeFire, might be the other reason I am able to start blogging with more regularity (I hope my blog doesn’t end up resembling the other activity where “regularity” is valued). I’m always living in my computer, and especially in my browser, so have the ability to hit the “ScribeFire” button and fire off a blog entry from the endless chain of thoughts my surfing is firing off might be the missing link (pardon the pun). Again, we’ll see.

One other thing that has held me back is the fact that I have hesitated
to use this blog for all my thoughts, as a purely personal blog as it
were. I’ve had the idea that I want this blog to be my “academic” blog.
I know that there will be bleed over. I suppose I need to start a
personal blog to start dumping my other thoughts into. I guess that might backfire though and lead me to blog less, because then I’ll feel like I have twice as much blogging to do, or not getting done, depending on how things work out. We’ll see.

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