Great Expectations

I am guilty of sporadic posting. I admit it. Even if I chose not to admit it, Dylan recently ousted me from my cozy little niche of non-posting on his blog. The funny thing is, Dylan claims that a lack of things to say has never been the cause for the more thread-bare patches in his blog’s history, and yet it is the main reason for my silence. Or at least that’s what I thought, until today when Dylan’s blog made me think about it. I’ve always THOUGHT that the reason I sometimes don’t post is because I can think of nothing interesting to say, but then I realized how much I enjoy reading others’ blogs, even when they are just about the everyday, mundane sort of stuff that weaves together to comprise our lives.
In fact, there are two blogs that I check each day: my brother, Matt’s, and Dylan’s. When I don’t find the post I anticipate, I will impatiently check back several times throughout the day. In a way, these blogs serve as a replacement for getting a newspaper; they are my dose of literacy for the day. Which I’ve just realized makes it sound like I don’t read anything else, which isn’t true, but I don’t know how else to explain it. What I really enjoy about both of the blogs is that they provide me with insight into these two individual’s lives. And I live with Dylan, so it is amazing that he manages to write about things that I find revealing.
The topic of Dylan’s post today was about the process of blogging, and as he described it as just that, a process, I knew he had found my weak spot. I like processes. I like things that have an order and a rhythm and a method to them. If there is precision and planning involved, even better. And so, I’ve decided to accept the silent challenge of Dylan’s blog and begin the journey into daily posts. I think that only 4 people actually read this blog on any sort of a regular basis, but for you four people, here is your warning that I will be endeavoring to post much more frequently. Stay tuned.