Why am I posting so much, like a monsoon after a drought?<\/p>\n
It’s a combination of suggestions (write about the Kindle!), guilt-laden comments (you never post anymore), and finally, learning that a friend has started using Google Reader + Outside Cat + his Blackberry, which = instant, constant updates.<\/p>\n
This alone is enough to inspire me to write more.<\/p>\n
I also got into a conversation with a young patron who was talking about how she doesn’t want to be a blogger, and I asked if she journaled, and she said she thinks it’s hard to write about herself because it’s boring and self-related all the time. I told her I felt the same way until my college roommate (Stephanie) gave me a Harry Potter journal. I made myself start writing in it every day, and it truly was boring and self-related (a lot of ‘omg, i have nothing to write’), but it became a habit, and I continued to journal. Then when I got a Diaryland <\/a>account, it became something I could access during the day (rather than my just-before-bed habit). THEN, I discovered Livejournal<\/a>, which many of my friends used. THEN, I discovered Jason, who showed me the ways of servers and domain names, and I migrated all my Livejournal writings over to the now-current (and really-ready-for-a-new-design) Outside Cat.<\/p>\n After I told her all this, I realized that I’ve lost the habit of writing, and I decided it was time to get back to it. Much like flossing, I’m not waiting till the new year to make this resolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Why am I posting so much, like a monsoon after a drought? It’s a combination of suggestions (write about the Kindle!), guilt-laden comments (you never post anymore), and finally, learning that a friend has started using Google Reader + Outside Cat + his Blackberry, which = instant, constant updates. This alone is enough to inspire […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bucket-of-sunshine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}