To blog or not to blog…

I was talking to a friend about blogging and asked him if he had a blog.  He said that he saw it as a pretentious way of people saying nonsense just to seem self-important.  He then said to me, “Oops…were you going to send me a link of your blog?  I’m guessing you have one and that’s where this is going.”

Well, I was asking because I wanted to know if he had one and because I would have liked to have read his views on the world around him.

It’s gotten me thinking, though.  Do I blog to be noticed?  Do I blog to be self-important or pretentious or to just talk?

I rarely blog if I don’t have anything to say (which is why there are often large spaces of time between entries…I don’t have much new thought to impart on the world).  Heh.

I think of this as a release, though.  It’s a place where I can spout off about the injustices or changes of the world as I see them and be ok doing that.  I don’t need positive feedback for that but I enjoy ANY feedback on that.  I want to hear what other people are thinking outside of my little circle.

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Back to school this week.  I like going back to school…it’s the back to work part that I’m not overly excited about.

Blah.

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I’m leaving for Philadelphia on Saturday.  I’ll be there for 5 days and I’m pretty excited.  It’s a business trip so there will be some time for sight-seeing (well, I’ll make time).  I’ve been there, when I was about 6 weeks old, but don’t, of course, remember any of it.  I can’t wait to go to a museum, to see historic sites that I’ve only read about in books, and to just experience a different environment than my own.  I’m really looking forward to this.

So, if any of you are from there and have any sites that you think I *should* see, let me know.  If you’d like to have lunch together, I’m always up for that, as well.  

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Have a wonderful Monday y’all.