so i was WAY overdue for a new look. here it is, friends. purple is one of my favorite colors. (when i was little and i would draw rainbows, i loved green and purple, and i loved them together -- but i hated blue, so i would just leave it out of the rainbow. that way, green and purple would be touching and it would be great). so yeah, the purple is good, i think. and i'm also liking the new 3-column layout. and yet... i'm not sure if i'm going to stick with it, because...
i've been wondering about the future of my blog lately. i've been considering ending my parasitic dependence on lay-c.com and perhaps switching to blogger or typepad something simpler. i'm getting more familiar with and better at movable type, of course, but i was thinking getting my own site might be good. and some of those services are definitely easier to use.
generally, though, i've been wondering if a switch is even worth my effort, because i've been pondering the distant future as well as the near future, and i'm not sure how long i'll be blogging. it's hard for me to imagine myself blogging 5 or 10 years in the future, especially if i have a real job and there are little kids running around the house (scary thought for me at this point, but nonetheless...). i suppose shokufeh does it with baby in tow, but i don't know if i can see myself doing it yet.
maybe blogging is something that is fit for a certain period in my life, and not for other periods of my life. i don't know if i'll always find it something i enjoy doing. particularly since, even now, i often get frustrated with some of the issues i've alluded to before. in particular, an incident that always comes to mind for me is one that occured in the very early days of my blogging when someone took offense to a word that i had used -- it caught me off guard, upset me on numerous dimensions, and threw the problems of blogging into sharp relief for me at a very early stage. initially, i struggled with whether to keep blogging at all, because at that point, it seemed like such a perfect way to be misunderstood and attacked in an impersonal medium. it still is, of course. but i got over my dejection and pessimism about the whole enterprise at that point and i feel like my nearly 2 years of blogging since then have been a very positive experience overall. but sometimes, i still wonder if it's worth my time and energy.
as lacey, my blog mom, always says, blogs are a great way to document and look back on your own growth as a person -- just like journals, which i've long used and loved, and which i'm sure i will always use and love. so i suppose i can always benefit by looking back on my blog, even if i decide to stop blogging at some point.
i don't know what i'll end up doing ultimately, but for now, i'm still here, i'm still on lay-c.com, and my blog is purple.
Posted by naseem at November 21, 2006 11:12 AMHey, your blog looks great in purple.
Posted by: +mojan. at November 21, 2006 03:04 PMYou're welcome to stay in the fami-lay as long as you want :) I'm going to be here for a while so as long as that's true, you can stay here with me. Just know that if you do decide to switch, you can export all your entries and it's really no big deal. You may have to re-link some photos, but that may be the biggest challenge. I personally hope you keep blogging because it's a way for me to keep up with you. But if you decide to stop someday, I'm sure you'll have a good reason. I might stop someday too, but I will need a darn good reason for it. Blogging is just a part of life to me now.
Posted by: lacey at November 21, 2006 03:45 PMWell, as Spock used to say..."To err is human; to blog, is awesome."
I think it was Spock that said that, anyway.
So, ummm, yeah. Blog, dude.
Unless you're scared.
:)
Posted by: Steve at November 23, 2006 03:50 PM