Friday, September 29, 2006

Anger Managment

I have been giving it a lot of thought recently and I have decided that while I prefer typing most of my writing, I feel a little insecure about blogging. I thought, I'll just write in my journal but that was ruled out when I realized how quickly my hand cramps, and how time consuming the whole process is (sometimes I feel like I'm writing a manuscript...it's insane- and I don't dislike writing, it's just the time it takes to form each individual letter...). So perhaps I am over-reacting, it wouldn't be the first time, but it has been plaguing me. Wouldn't it be convenient if i were lying though? "Oh, i just didn't blog because I feel weird about posting my stuff on the internet..." But it's TRUE. You can ask people, I've spoken about it and finally just decided to write a blog about blogging (thats how much this whole thing has peeved me). But after writing this I feel a bit better about it. To be honest, now I don't really care. You know what? If people want to read my shit and fucking copy it, or just read it to read it, whatever. I don't care. It's my writing anyway and I don't fucking care if they all want to read it. Just keep in mind that I didn't write it for you. I wrote it because I felt like it.
It does piss me off though when people read something personal for the explicit purpose of copying it. Not that that has happened here, but it's happened before and it always has bothered me. They're like "Oh, I just want to see what you did" and then they end uplike fucking formating their ENTIRE PAPER from yours. And you can't be like "What. the. fuck." Because they're all "Oh I just admire you and I totally didn't copy.." Riiiight you didn't copy. Tell that to the teacher who gives you an A because he thinks it's your work. HOW DO YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT???????????
aHHHHHH blogs.

1 Comments:

Blogger Mike McAteer said...

I know how you feel about the strangeness of blogging. The first few times I did it, I wondered about whether or not my posts would be evaluated, so I was too self-conscious. But then I got in the habit of hitting publish as soon as I stopped writing my freewrite, and now I like the whole "yes-I-did-bite-my-thumb-at-you" vibe that blogging gives me.

One reason I don't publish the blog list for the class is because people sometimes do write personal things. To me, this should be as private as the notebook -- if you want someone to read it, you can let them, but there's no expectation that anyone other than I would read the blog.

Hasta manana.

6:43 PM

 

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