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Well, my general blogging malaise is still with me, but I’m poking in to share a few brief things.
Don’t forget to stop by this post and let me know who you are!
I’ve tried to deal with the sluggish loading problem by removing some things from my sidebar. It seems to have helped a bit. If I ever get the energy, I might try a new theme and clean things up even more. Or, I might just move the whole thing over to wordpress so I don’t have to deal with all of the pain-in-the-butt issues that come withh hosting my own blog. Meh, I don’t know.
I’ve been baking a lot lately. It seems to be my current way of dealing with stress/creative outlet. I’ve taken a bunch of pictures, which I will one day upload. I’ll post recipes, too. My most recent successes have been breads. I made a pumpkin bread last week that was yummy, but for the fact that it got a teeny bit overcooked around the edges. And yesterday, I made a (white) batter bread that is also pretty tasty.
I’m a little bummed out about this whole Channel 4/Time Warner thing because of How I Met Your Mother. Thank goodness for the Internet, eh? I’m not likely to hop ship to a satellite service, because our cable comes with our condo association membership. Maybe this whole thing will be settled soon. Until then, iTunes will be my best friend.
I have watched none of Heroes (we watched 10 minutes into the premiere and got a little bored) or Chuck. Rand and I did watch Dirty Sexy Money last week, which we both continue to love.
I’ve now read most of A Raisin in the Sun, but have not yet started Of Mice and Men. I’d better get on that, as my class will be starting it later this week. (has anyone seen the recent version of A Raisin in the Sun w/Sean Combs aka Puffy or Puff Daddy or Diddy, or whatever name he’s using these days? I haven’t. Just curious.)
Okay, I need to step away from the computer now. Hope everyone’s having a happy Monday!
Whoooooooo are you?
I’d like to do a quick roll call. I’m interested in knowing who’s hanging out around erin-go-blog. If you could find it in your hearts to leave me a comment–doesn’t need to be anything profound–I’d greatly appreciate it.
It’d help me if you left me a working email address as well! (It doesn’t show publicly…I’m the only one who can see it!)
On hiatus
Like you hadn’t already noticed this…
I’m actually having one of my periodic “what the heck am I doing with this blog” moments. So, in addition to being crazy busy, I’m also taking this time to think about how I want to proceed. For how long? I really don’t know, but I will let you know as soon as I do.
Feel free to leave me your well-wishes!
Bloggers in the news
Thank you for sharing: for women, blogs are becoming as essential as lipstick
Me, Jen, and jen14221 are all featured in an article in today’s Buffalo News.
Six Degrees of Bloggeration
A little while ago, I received an email from fellow TC editor Faith. The gist of it was something like this:
“As you may remember, I have the Big Ideas blog (bigideas4u.blogspot.com). A gal (Annemarie) I know was apparantly very inspired by my last idea, titled Six Degrees of Bloggeration. My idea as posted: “Someone should start a blog that will simply show us how many known blogs, in multiples of six, it would take to connect all the blogs in the blogosphere.” She suspects I am right, that we are all a lot more interconnected than we could imagine.”
So Annmarie picked six bloggers. Faith was one of those. And Faith picked six bloggers, and I was one of those. I’ve already left my comment and emailed my picks, but I wanted to share them with all of you:
1. All Things Jennifer
Jen is a real life friend–we’ve been friends since our first year of college. We were roommates for the subsequent three years. I moved to Buffalo because of her. Her blog is funny, honest, and always entertaining.
2. Superfluous Juxtaposition
Hilary is a Jewish gal who lives in LA. We connected because we were living somewhat parallel lives on opposite sides of the country. We turned 30 at the same time. 😉
3. Dispensing Happiness
Stephanie is a very old friend of mine. She’s a very active food blogger, and I love reading about what she’s cooking!
4. Byzantium’s Shores
Kelly is smart, interesting, and lots of fun to read. He writes about football (in season), pop culture, writing, and his family, among other things.
5. Silly Little Mischief
Linda is another blogging bride-to-be. She’s getting married a week after me!
6. Glitter for Brains
Lee is the most fabulous blogger in all of London. I discovered his blog through a mutual love of Alias.
There were lots of others I could have chosen, of course…I tried to find some variety, of location, subject, and so forth. I also tried to choose people I thought would be likely to participate. (of course, if you’d rather not, please let me know. I’ll choose someone else!)
Offline
So, we’ve moved the network and the computers to the new place. Yay!
This means I will be offline until tomorrow. ‘Night all!
Blogged with the Flock Browser
Sidebar hackage
Bah. Looks like my sidebar has been the victim of some linkspam. I’ve alerted the proper authorities, and hopefully it will be dealt with soon. (technically, I suppose I could do it myself, but that would require a lot more time and energy than I want…)
UPDATE
It’s fixed, and I’ve been upgraded. My internet guys rock. 😀
The return of Required Reading
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 IÂ 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!