Friday, April 28, 2006

So I looked up the definition in of "Weblog" in Wikipedia--which by the way is becoming an extremely popular source of information for speeches in my speech class and papers that I see. And my academic side can't help but cringe when I see such an unreliable, unpeerreviewed form of research utilized. Other than the fact that it would not pass the be-all, end-all test of PLC-approved sources, I don't understand why everone chooses Wikidepia. What happened to Jeeves and Google? Personally, I think Google is more reliable: one, because they now control the majority of our online tools; additionally, they have greater resources (also known as billions of dollars) poured into creating an accurate, near-perfect virtual environment for us. So instead I googled "Weblog" and google kindly gave me a little graphic with a blue book that, when clicked, gave six website where I could find the definition of Weblog. The last of the six happened to be Wikipedia, and consequently my trust in the Wikipedia cyber-info website has been restored, thanks entirely to Google and NOT to students in my Speech class. The point of this story is that the definition of Weblog includes the following: a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles. After reading it I sobered up to the reality that I can no longer call this a blog, because it is not periodical, but aperidical, which in terms of sound waves (and probably many other things) means not peroidic. I was prompted to check this definition because of a compelling email I received from Teju, who conveyed his dissapointment in me for not updating my blog, or whatever it is now called.

So I write this to clear some things up: I am not a quitter. And likewise, my blog has not quit, it has simply gone into hybernation while I drown in a few things like school, work, internship, school, and internship. Did I mention work? But not to worry, something by the name of Summer has thrown me a life saver and soon I will be alive again, and ready to turn this mess into a periodical blog again.

I don't see why this should excite anyone, since most of what I have to say is not only complete nonsense, but has no bearing on how my readers carry on their lives. In fact, I imagine the world is quite content without me writing all my nonsense. The world says, "Thank you for not writing. I can go existing as I am supposed to, without Annie finding everything wrong with me in her suedo Seinfeld-writer kind of way." But I am sorry, I still intend to make a wild comeback as the summer begins. Just wait: a plethora of ridiculous, irrelevent, topics await your reading..... Check back if your in a Lets See What The Fool Has To Comlpain About Today kind of mood.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

isn't that what our society thrives on? things that have absolutely no impact on us where we keep going in our normal everyday lives...

that's why i love it

Anonymous said...

Wow, she exists. Who knew?