I feel like I really can’t be all that honest on this blog. I guess I shouldn’t say honest. I mean I can’t be too forthcoming, because too many people know who I am. Which isn’t a bad thing. I like people and I like the people I’ve met through blogging.
I am worried too much about what this person or that person is going to think if I post this or that, or what persona I am throwing out there. Of late, I think this blog is just kind of silly. Which is not my nature. At least not all of it. But since it takes so much energy to work what I really want to say into something that is OK to say, seems like a lot of work. So instead I kind of just type silly things or provide links to funny things. To string you along. To make sure that you keep reading. Why? I don’t know.
I wish I was tony and could say that nothing in here is true.
I’ve come to terms with the idea that people are defined by what’s in their blog. I’ve realized that for most people it’s not who they are. Unless you’re anonymous, do you really want to go around looking like a lunatic? No one does. But we write things anyway with varying degress of regret following behind us. And it’s not that we’re lunatics, it’s just that we end up looking like lunatics, or whatever it is we’re projecting out there that we don’t see ourselves.
I have no point. I often don’t. I just type until it’s over.
I feel like I really can’t be all that honest on this blog. I guess I shouldn’t say honest. I mean I can’t be too forthcoming, because too many people know who I am. Which isn’t a bad thing. I like people and I like the people I’ve met through blogging.
I am worried too much about what this person or that person is going to think if I post this or that, or what persona I am throwing out there. Of late, I think this blog is just kind of silly. Which is not my nature. At least not all of it. But since it takes so much energy to work what I really want to say into something that is OK to say, seems like a lot of work. So instead I kind of just type silly things or provide links to funny things. To string you along. To make sure that you keep reading. Why? I don’t know.
I wish I was tony and could say that nothing in here is true.
I’ve come to terms with the idea that people are defined by what’s in their blog. I’ve realized that for most people it’s not who they are. Unless you’re anonymous, do you really want to go around looking like a lunatic? No one does. But we write things anyway with varying degress of regret following behind us. And it’s not that we’re lunatics, it’s just that we end up looking like lunatics, or whatever it is we’re projecting out there that we don’t see ourselves.
I have no point. I often don’t. I just type until it’s over.
i wanted to go to this event, but I decided against it on account of not wanting to overspend this weekend. I know I could have gone without actually bowling, but who goes to a bowling alley just to watch other people bowl? And did anyone know that bowling is very expensive now? So, I’m not going. I apologize to the person who invited me.
I would like to report, however, that we had two very delicee-o-so meals this weekend already. The first was the Munich Haus in Chicopee. What’s that, you say? You never thought I would go to Chicopee on purpose? Well, I did. The Munich Haus, despite its frightful yellow awning, is a lovely place to eat German food, if you like that sort of thing. Which I do. I splurged with the combo platter. It included the Jaeger Schnitzel, Rahm Schnitzel and Paprika Schnitzel and there is plenty for leftovers tonight.
Our second delicious meal was our late lunch today at Baku’s African Restaurant in Amherst. Cheap and tasty. I had the chicken curry with rice, plaintains and collard greens. All for $6.
I changed around my blog links a little bit. I took out some dead blogs, killed others that I don’t really read (sorry for the tough love) and put the links in alphabetical order.
A number of fabulous women (as far as I know it’s the women who are running this) have taken on a worthy endeavor. They’re organizing a great class of bloggers from the region around a citizen media conference (and more). Right now it’s in its nascent stages, so you have a chance to get involved from the beginning.
I´ve been tagged by Ms. Xanth:
Four jobs I’ve had in my life:
Short-order cook (although not at the Colebrook location but the Palmyra one)
Bindery operator at a printing company
Student organizer
Selling credit cards for MBNA (for exactly two weeks)
Four movies I could watch over and over:
Wings of Desire
Terms of Endearment
Die Hard (the first one)
Magnolia
Four places I have lived:
Not too many… Palmyra, PA
State College, PA
Boston for a month – does that even count?
Western Mass
Four TV shows I love to watch: The Office
Project Runway
The Daily Show
pretty much any crap on MTV. I’m not discerning.
Four places I have been on vacation:
Iceland (yay!)
Northern California
Denver and Aspen, Colorado
The Jersey Shore, baby
Four websites I visit daily:
MassLive.com (seriously)
TIRH
largeheartedboy
CNN.com
Four of my favorite foods
sushi
ice cream
I am currently in love with oatmeal made with milk, honey and cinnamon on the stovetop–huzzah
i had the most incredible meal ever at a czech restaurant in astoria–chicken paprikash
Four places I would rather be right now:
Iceland
grandma’s house
on the couch with my kitties
I think that’s it
Four bloggers I am tagging:
Kelsey Frost who probably has no time, but oh well.
Knitgirl, the coolest mail carrier ever
Gwyn, who kidnapped Pat for a few days
Kath-leen and her new pair of boobies
I´ve been tagged by Ms. Xanth:
Four jobs I’ve had in my life:
Short-order cook (although not at the Colebrook location but the Palmyra one)
Bindery operator at a printing company
Student organizer
Selling credit cards for MBNA (for exactly two weeks)
Four movies I could watch over and over:
Wings of Desire
Terms of Endearment
Die Hard (the first one)
Magnolia
Four places I have lived:
Not too many… Palmyra, PA
State College, PA
Boston for a month – does that even count?
Western Mass
Four TV shows I love to watch: The Office
Project Runway
The Daily Show
pretty much any crap on MTV. I’m not discerning.
Four places I have been on vacation:
Iceland (yay!)
Northern California
Denver and Aspen, Colorado
The Jersey Shore, baby
Four websites I visit daily:
MassLive.com (seriously)
TIRH
largeheartedboy
CNN.com
Four of my favorite foods
sushi
ice cream
I am currently in love with oatmeal made with milk, honey and cinnamon on the stovetop–huzzah
i had the most incredible meal ever at a czech restaurant in astoria–chicken paprikash
Four places I would rather be right now:
Iceland
grandma’s house
on the couch with my kitties
I think that’s it
Four bloggers I am tagging:
Kelsey Frost who probably has no time, but oh well.
Knitgirl, the coolest mail carrier ever
Gwyn, who kidnapped Pat for a few days
Kath-leen and her new pair of boobies
If you are wondering what I have been up to that could keep me away from this blog, well, the answer is that I am working a lot. During the last two days I was covering a high school event and produced several videos as a result. I am pretty critical of my own work. All I can say is that these will get better as time goes on.
Sometimes I just need a crappy blog entry to get me back in the swing of blogging. Witness the blog entry below.
No, not that one. The one about the tree.
I stayed up until midnight, watching the Orange Bowl (go penn state!) so now I’m disorientingly tired, a way that I should not be when I’ve got a long work day ahead of me.
blogging, daily life | sighclub June 19, 2006 | 
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