July 22nd 2005

hm wow hum oh boy

Oh golly finished HP 6. Can NOT wait for 7. Heidi’s spoiler post + comments is now a very interesting read.

This isn’t a proper review becuase, duh, I am NOT a spoiler queen. But I enjoyed the book VERY MUCH and as soon as Mr. Angst finishes reading it, I’m diving in again.

the crappy week, it ends up OK

I have my car back! Yay!

Also, this week, my Big Girl suit arrived and it FITS. I will have to take it to be altered because the jacket is NOT a petite and the skirt is a little big in the waist. But it’s Brooks Brothers, and they’ll do it for FREE.

So after all the crap, the week ended up pretty good.

Um, oh yeah

Harry Potter, the British Edition, arrived in my mailbox yesterday. Instead of coming home and turning on the TV, I ripped open the box and started reading IMMEDIATELY.

So far, I am intrigued.

Friday Spies©—the navel gazing edition

By BTQ.

1. Why did you start blogging?

I think I answered these questions once already, like a year ago. But I’ll try and answer them again. Maybe things are different now.

I started blogging in the very first place because it was a cool new thing to do with computers and the internet and I like being an early adopter of cool technology. This is why I’ve been a Blogger user since November of 2001. I blogged for a while, then stopped because I didn’t have anything to focus on, then started back up again.

I started THIS blog to chronicle the law school thing.

2. Are the reasons you blog now the same as when you started? If not, what’s changed?

No, my reasons aren’t the same. I started blogging because technology is cool; I blog now because this is a medium for me to get some writing done (though I seem to be writing shorter and less-well-thought out posts lately, I’m working on that) and also because it is a journaling medium.

3. What would make blogging better for you?

I honestly don’t know. Sometimes blogging would be better for me if I had a constant focus, and that focus provided enough fodder for me to write an entry a day on. That’s not the case right now. Maybe that will change once school starts.

4. Do you have comments on your blog? Why or why not? Do you comment on other blogs? What motivates you to post a comment?

Of COURSE I have comments. I LOVE comments. Comments exist to keep me writing about the right things. And to extend the post into a conversation.

I do comment on other blogs, and for varying reasons. Sometimes I just want to comment on how good a post is, sometimes I want to actually get into the content of the post and debate it a little.

5. What is your philosophy of the blogroll?

The blogroll is my list of blogs I think my readers should check out. Not all the blogs I read are on my blogroll, some I keep to myself. And some blogs I read aren’t on the blogroll YET, but will be soon enough. Since I use Bloglines for my blogroll, I can go through my subscriptions every now and then and see who I’ve been reading and enjoying that I think should go on the roll. Sometimes I go through and notice a blog I subscribed to just to see what their content was really like, but I find I don’t really read it that much or it’s not the kind of blog I thought it was, and I unsubscribe. But none of that takes place on the blogroll. The blogroll is a list of blogs that have already been vetted.

(That’s not to say I love reading all the blogs on my roll. But I think they’re all worth your time, even if just for a glance.)