I have been a very frustrated blogger lately.
First, I haven’t been blogging lately at all, so that title might be in jeopardy. Since one becomes a blogger by blogging, it is a title that one bestows upon one’s self by fiat, and…is therefore not much of a title. So I am in jeopardy of losing a title which I give to myself by doing the act which is the basis of that title.
No wonder I don’t blog more. I barely make sense and spend most of my time in my head…
The inspiration for this post is that I just caught up on about 7 posts by a friend of mine who is a GREAT blogger (she keeps it private and I respect her choice to control who accesses it. Otherwise I’d link to it because it truly should be shared). In fact, she is married to another GREAT blogger who is a great writer in general. They are both funny, witty, and able to capture all of their personality and humor and everything else in their posts.
Meanwhile, I find myself overly serious in my posts, and fear that the few people that read this blog think I’m morose, obsessive, and taking myself way too seriously. I’m all about complaining about the lack of strategic planning in academia, about how we need to fix things…in academia, or how co-workers and/or my work environment are challenging my professional mental stability via chaos, disorganization, and frustration.
To top things off, I don’t blog enough – even about these serious topics – to get anyone to really notice. I’ve got a draft about the next steps of “edupunking” my law school that has been sitting there for weeks. If I can’t be funny, at least I can write things of substance. But if I only write such things every 3-4 weeks, then who is going to notice?
So…the conundrum is that I’m a blogger that rarely blogs. I’m a (hopefully) funny guy that is always serious when writing. And one of the ways I want to set myself apart from others in my field is by way of my great, sagacious and insightful writing about academia…but I don’t do much writing.
blurg.