I Know It’s Dangerous, This ‘Thinking’ Business

Fri Jun 20, 2008 3:55 pm by McGehee 5 comments [Asides] [Out West]

I’ve been thinking about that whole “writing up my vacation” thing. I’ve been home for over a week now, and still haven’t even started writing, let alone posting. The reason is, simply, that nobody’s asking to read it. Which is cool, if nobody does want to read about it. I’m not sure I could make it interesting anyway. It was one of those “you had to be there” vacations, except for such dribbles and drabs as I may already have posted, or may think to mention at some future time. But that leads to other thoughts: I’m not going to try to drag out a narrative if nobody’s interested, and if anybody is interested I’d just as soon not feel obligated to write it up for them either. I just don’t want to write. Then again, I also don’t seem to have the discipline to just stop posting altogether. Something’s got to change around here, but I really don’t know what I want to do.

 

CGHill said: You think I care if anyone reads my tedious travel logs or not? Okay, maybe a little. I did throw in more pictures this year.  But I have the supreme confidence that comes from knowing that more than a thousand people a day take my feed and at least four or five of them actually read the damn thing. » Friday, 20 June 2008 @ 10:39 pm McGehee said: Hell, back in ‘99 I wrote this without any clue whether anyone cared to read it—only to discover that quite a few did. Nine years later, though, the grind has just plain worn me down. I can’t get motivated to write much of anything about anything, because I’ve been writing about it already in some form or other for at least 15 years—with no evidence of progress on any front. Imagine if, after a full day of driving, you discovered you were still in the parking lot of the hotel you stayed in the night before. » Friday, 20 June 2008 @ 11:08 pm CGHill said: Yeah, and each and every one of the 10,850 posts I’ve made since August ‘02 (when Movable Type was installed) is on a wholly different topic.  Sure they are. The neat thing about dead horses is that they don’t complain about the beatings. » Saturday, 21 June 2008 @ 12:22 pm McGehee said: Maybe that’s what I’m doing wrong—I don’t beat the horse, I just nag. Come to think of it, something about that arrangement always did seem just a bit off. » Saturday, 21 June 2008 @ 1:31 pm Jeffro said: Hah! I get a kick out of reading both of you. So there! » Saturday, 21 June 2008 @ 8:03 pm You must be registered and logged in to comment.