Every January hundreds if not thousands of bloggers refind their dormant blogs and make a vow to start blogging again. I base this on the spike in emails I get at the start of the year from bloggers I follow. Some make a statement post promising to blog more, others just start writing again. And then they fade away. Again.
I make no such declarations. I write when the mood hitting me intersects with the opportunity to sit in front of a keyboard and clack away. I wrote in a journal from high school until switching to a computer file post-college. I kept that going until I started my first blog in 2006. I tried to keep them both up but that was just too much writing. Then the professional blog over at ChicagoNow came along and I wrote there for many years.
According to Google Analytics, this personal blog got 46 visitors last month. I'm sure at least half of that was me reading old posts. The professional blog gets about 1000 hits a month, even though I haven't written there in a long time either. The benefits of the Chicago Tribune Ecosystem.
I'm not sure what to do with that space either. it's nice to be able to have a place to vent my spleen and know that more than 46 people are reading it. But here's the thing. I am burnt out with the writing thing.
A long time ago in a bedroom far, far away, I had dreams of being an engineer by day and a writer at night. unfortunately, I didn't have the right resources to succeed in the engineering world. And I didn't have the right circumstances to succeed in the world of Journalism. I probably could have gone to some small town and got a job as a copy editor or Obits writer. Perhaps worked my way up to the day shift.
But leaving Chicago after college wasn't an option and besides, I didn't really have the balls to try and start in a new place where I knew no one and didn't have anyone to fall back on. Hindsight is 20/20 and honestly, I really should have changed majors as an undergrad and either given Mechanical Engineering (instead of Electrical) a chance or gone to Computer Science in the first place.
Back to the blogs. I do hope to write a little bit more. This one will probably be a personal Web Log archive to look back on significant life events. ChicagoNow will be where I vent my spleen and perhaps promote a book if I ever write one.
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