I don't really buy into the whole meme thing. If someone tags me with some sort of list, I'll answer it in a comment on their post, but memes are a bit too much like email forwards for my taste.

I do tend to try out the latest new smartypants community websites though.

When I write my weblog entries, I generally imagine myself talking to President Hoover. Just me 'n him, chatting by the fire. "So what do you think of the Reconstruction Finance Act", he asks. "I think it's fine, fine", I say, swirling my port, "but you really ought to put to rest this notion of withdrawing from Nicaragua."

Taz had something really cool on her metafilter user page at one point that I stole...

I'll look for it.

I love your blog the way it is.

Ahhh, thanks, grouse, and I'm not talking about doing forwarded e-mail surveys, sciurus (gross, hehe)- it's more like I like to have a bank of ways of writing in my head for the days I'm not feeling inspired.

Oh, I usually review a movie on those days or write stupid silly little stories or write a crummy poem.

Stories and poems are OK... movie reviews I don't care for (sorry, I always skip over those entries you write, sciurus, tehehe).

I take the writing for my site very seriously.... I'm always thinking, what do I want to communicate to people? What do I want to highlight about my life view (which is hard, because first I have to articulate it)? Not only that, but what do I want to remember- it's my record of my life; I go back and remember stuff I had forgotten. The fact that it's public, and people I know in "real life" read it (especially since now I know so many Mefites, but even before that, my parents read it) can sometimes hold me back, and that kinda bothers me, sometimes- I wonder if I'm leaving out things I would otherwise write about just to avoid scaring (my father!) or offending people.

Oh, that was sooooo MetaMeta, tehehe....

I don't mind that people skip over entries. Ultimately I don't write for anyone but myself, so if no one read my stuff I'd keep writing it. It is good therapy, and if I write something down I don't have to remember it anymore.

I'm the last person to advise anyone really but I think it's a good idea to have some posts in reserve written on days when you do feel energetic. Have a look through your links, your book shelf, your CDs and see if they inspire anything. Maybe some annecdotes from your past, everyone has stories to tell.

I like the 100 things meme. It can tell you a lot about a person that doesn't come up in regular blog posts.