I wonder how many blogs start with "it's been a long time since my last post..." or something to the same effect. I feel that blogging is a sort of venue for intellectual vanity-- the blogger having some idea or turn of phrase or opinion of weight and necessity to be contributed to the landfill of similarly important information that throws askew Google search algorithms. For me, blogging is a way to excercise my extensive SAT vocabulary while attempting to wax philosophical over personal mundanities. Making somethings out of nothings. It's also fun to think that I've documented my life and made things public record so that one day I'll get caught by someone I know saying something I probably wouldn't say without the guise of anonymity.
For the record, my lack of posts have been due to two things:
1) a number of exciting events in my life that have made me so busy and left me with little time to post. I got married to the one and only love of my life last June and have been in this honeymoon phase that couples go through, although I've never had a honeymoon. However, that will change in June when we have our makeup honeymoon in Italy! I don't know what excites me more about the trip-- seeing the Pope @the Vatican, running into George Clooney in some cafe, or the thought of seeing the Situation. A certain trinity of sorts. :)
Work's been going strong, and I'm up for that contrversial performance pay if my students did well on their science assessments; I'm banking that my students unfaltering admiration and respect for me motivated them to do their best.... I banked all of my retirement on it. I guess performance pay's only controversial if you don't get it, but either way I think it's a great incentive.
Other than that, I've been taking several little weekend getaways as west as Texas, south as Miami Beach, and north as New York City. Life's been good.
2) My online interactions, when non work-related, have been passive in nature; my facebook friends can attest to this. This quite possibly is due to newser and stumbleupon.
So, here I am now, posting, because I'm in a car making the 4-hr trip down to visit maminka (mother in law), and I just downloaded "blogger" for android phones and I wanted to try it out. Just for ambiance, it's a beautifully blue-sky day, we're listening to Pitbull on Pandora. My husband is driving and getting real stuff done with his phone- calling his babicka, mom, and uncle, and making travel-related inquiries on orbitz. Ah, technology.
I feel though, through recent events, we're on the precupice of greater things to come. I won't verbally speculate as to what, for fear of being jinxed, but if I continue blogging regularly, undoubtedly it'll get mentioned. If not, I'll at least leave these clues: third time's the charm, and an active search to fill an empty chair at the dinner table.
