A Resurrection

I've recently discovered something about blogs: if you don't update them, no one reads them. (I know; this is shocking.) Over the last few months, my posting frequency on Xanga has plummeted from the "sporadic" level to somewhere near "nonexistent." This, understandably, has resulted in the site becoming something of a wasteland. (You could almost see the tumbleweeds rolling across the screen and hear the coyotes howling.) I thought about trying to breathe some new life into that site, renovating what I had, but then decided that an all-around fresh start might be better (and easier). So, this is my attempt to shake off the "blog reticence" and stake my claim on a little corner of the Web.

Why the sudden reinterest in blogging? Well, a lack of writing would seem to indicate: (1) that nothing's happening in my life, and/or (2) that I have nothing to say about anything (and thus am not thinking very much--or very critically--about anything). Well, the first definitely is not true. There's a lot going on in my life these days, and I know there are at least a few people who like to know about these things. And the second...well, as much as I hate to admit it, it does ring truer. It's easy to fall prey to monotony and exchange reason for rote. But I don't like to see it happen.

Anyway, the point I'm oh-so-slowly arriving at is that, if for no other reasons than (1) to keep the few interested people updated on what I'm up to and (2) to keep myself engaged in some form of mental activity, I'm going to be updated this blog MUCH more often than I did the other one--starting now. Check back very soon!