So I decided to bring back my YA lit blog, Required Reading. I was prompted to do so because of my new blogfriend Jessica (aka miss_shortskirt). She is also a lover of the YA, so I proposed that she join me in reviving the blog as a co-blogger, and she agreed. Woohoo!
So, anyone interested in YA can check us out over there. See ya!
Well, BufBloPoFo-08 comes to a close…can you believe it?
BufBloPoFo Topic for Day 14: Link to whatever you posted exactly one year ago (or whatever’s closest), and give your readers an update on that topic. If you haven’t been writing for a year, give us a list of three or four things that are going on in your life right now that you’ll want to update one year from now at the end of BufBloPoFo09.
Hrm. Well, what I blogged about one year ago today is hardly update-worthy. I reviewed Adam Selzer’s book How to Get Suspended and Influence People.
A day earlier, I blogged about my weekend, which involved watching movies, making brownies, and meeting with Jen and Samantha for our short-lived book club.
The next day, I blogged about discovering J. Wood’s Lost blog at Powell’s.
Two years ago, March 15 2006 (I didn’t post on the 14th), I mentioned having met my ex on the Ides of March.
And yeah, there are three or four things I might be blogging about next year. Like this, maybe. 😉
And hey, by the way, happy pi day!
For the first day of BufBloPoFo, the topic assigned was “tell us about your blog.” I answered this question back in June at this post, but here’s an excerpt:
When did you begin your first blog and what inspired you to do so?
I started my first blog (titled rather boringly “erin’s blog”) in late 2002 or early 2003. I was inspired by my good friend Eden of So Anyway, who had sung the praises of blogging and first sent me the link to Blogger to help me get started.
My blog sat mostly empty for quite some time. I posted now and then throughout early 2003, and when I began student teaching in the fall of 2003, I started a second blog-my online student teaching journal. (I don’t think that one’s online at this point…)
The thing that really got me blogging regularly was The Breakup in the fall of 2003. My long-term BF rather abruptly called it quits, and I began blogging regularly both as a way of dealing with my feelings and letting my friends know what was going on in my life without having to tell the same stories over and over and over again.
When I started dating again, I blogged about my experiences to entertain people, and soon I had a small but loyal readership!
Unfortunately, the vast majority of those early posts were lost in the Tragic Blog Incident. (I accidentally deleted my database. Don’t ask…)
Since those early days, I’ve changed urls a couple of times (the first one I chose was too close to the email address I had at the time, and I thought that was a mistake, given the topics I was blogging about. ) and moved from Blogger to hosting my own blog using a WordPress format. I like it here. 😉
This is the first post in existence on my current blog, from March of 2004, almost four years ago. A few of my older posts (from Blogger) are still floating around the net somewhere, but most are gone forever. Eh, what are ya gonna do…
I do believe my first real post (January 2003) was about Super Bowl commercials.
Almost exactly a year ago, I completed a meme asking for 5 reasons why I blog. It took me a while to find that so I could link to it, but there it is!
And how did I choose my blog name? I dunno…it just amused me. 🙂
I maintain several other blogs (some of which are more active than others…you can find the links either on that first post I linked to above or on the “about me” page. Also, there’s my recently formed wedding blog, with the boring name “Erin’s Wedding Blog.” I’ll take suggestions for a new name. 😉 )