Not only am I the type of person who quotes The Rentals in a blog post title, I'm the type of person who has probably used this quote more than once. And the type of person who just doesn't care. If you could see me, I'd be waiving my hands in the air, the universal signal among the club-going public of a lack of caring. (Full disclosure: I've been to clubs, but at no time in a club did I waive my hands in the air. Because when I was in the club, evidently I did care. Quite a lot. But that's over now.)
So what, in fact, is up with me? I've been working on a professional website. It carries just the slightest hint of the stink of my failure. So slight you might be tricked into thinking it's just a French dude down the street.
I'm thinking that, when I get the website fine-tuned, I might retire this blog and replace it with a blog on the website. I don't know. The pros of keeping ARS going: 1) It already exists. 2) It's free. The cons: 1) Having a website and a separate blog makes my life slightly more complex. 2) Blah blah blah, nobody cares about my decision-making process. I could hire a one-armed Romanian prostitute to throw knives at a spinning wheel with sectors designated "KEEP ARS" and "DON'T KEEP ARS" and it would be about as scientific.
One of the draws of ARS was the anonymity. Not that I'm living a secret life here or anything, but I liked being able to share my honest opinions without consideration of politeness and decorum and whatnot. But that's over, anyway. Family members found my blog, people I know from church found my blog. The all-married man has no one to talk to, and that includes a blog-reading audience. So I don't think content would change dramatically if I started blogging under my name. It would probably skew more economic and less religious, and I'd be less-inclined to write things like, "I still feel terrible about not getting hired in Idaho." But the days of writing a post about the family members or ward members who bug me the most are gone. Let them go.
Title from the song "Friends of P."
via oneofthebest
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