I think I am going to try and continue this blog. The reasons for doing so are (in order), narcissism, catharsis, and a way of keeping in touch with people.
The major drawback, however, is the privacy issue. Now that I am (for better or worse) an academic, these things carry more weight – there has been a lot of discussion in the past about blogs having a negative impact on career prospects.
It’s quite conceivable that I’m just really really paranoid. Even so, the risks are somewhat manageable. I don’t use my real name and I won’t be talking about my school or city by name. Instead, let’s say the city I live in is Zukong Gimorlad-Siragosa, or ZGS, and my school is the University of Zukong Gimorlad-Siragosa, or UZGS.
According the Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson in The Illuminatus! Trilogy, Zukong Gimorlad-Siragosa is “the largest and most central city on the continent [of Atlantis] (but not the capital, because the Atlanteans do not have a government).” Why am I choosing this? No particular reason. I don’t even love this book—it was okay and I respect, a little, why Shea and RAW were trying to do, but I can’t say I really enjoyed it.
So yeah, there’s that. Doesn’t mean I will post any more regularly.
You update more than I do. I haven’t been reading because I didn’t know you were still writing here, but I will be more faithful now.
Comment by Crystal — October 16, 2007 @ 11:03 am