Monday, December 27, 2004

Yet Another Start

A few weeks ago at the faculty orientation for Community Christian College (where I'm currently teaching a class), John Harbison, a fine Old Testament scholar, was discussing with me differing kinds of workers; specifically, he mentioned that people can be classed into "starters" and "maintainers."

While it's clear that I have a terrible time starting much of anything, I seem to be far more a starter than maintainer, as I find it easier to just begin new blogs rather than updating the ones I've already got. I don't know anyone else with a head so big that they have multiple blogs, but here I am. Maybe I can try for some world record for most blogs which say almost nothing.

At any rate, I have grown weary of not posting on my blogs, yet I'm still resistant to using the ones I've got for daily "journal"-type entries. I want to keep Wordhord for literary/thoughtful musings and Feral Donkey for my random entertainment and oddity-related issues. Both of those are blogs where (when they come out) I want to spend some time crafting good writing as well as just expressing myself. But that takes a long time. From thence comes this: the daily "I'm not doing anything interesting but I'll make you read about it anyway"-type blog. So in exchange for less-crafted stuff on dull topics, you get more consistent updates. Perhaps one day I can learn to harmonize all these strains, but until then I'll stick to choking the blogsphere with a trio of publishing spots.

My goal (I hesitate to call it a resolution) is to post here near daily. I'll mention when there are updates to the other blogs, so those handful of people who are at all interested can just check here. Sound fair? Then here we go.

3 comments:

Christina said...

Michael, I'm finding that I'm much the same way. I get very motivated and excited and start something, but I find that I also have a hard time maintaining it. I either quit completely or severely slack off. I'm excited to read about your daily events (hopefully!), if only because I grow tired of thinking of my own. It was great seeing you tonight, thanks again for a wonderful evening and for spoiling me and my children. That was very nice and thoughtful of you.

slickthief said...

hey there... greetings from a fine land that is India...
my name is Suchin Moses... you seem to have seen my blog http://slickroom.blogspot.com ... well you must have stumbled upon it.... but i felt the urge to tell you something.... i read that you teach at a christian college... im christian too...aint doin too well spiritually though... tell me what you think...
post on my blog plz....

Michael Slusser said...

Um...

Not to be obtuse, SlickThief, but I'd never heard of your blog--and checking it out, it seems utterly unrelated to anything mentioned here. I get the strong sense you're trolling for readers, which is not my favorite thing ever.

If I'm wrong, let me know.