Blogging vs. blahgging

June 7, 2006 · Filed Under blogging

I don’t feel like blogging today — that would be too purposeful and/or constructive.

I think that a better word for the self-indulgent blather that I’m spewing forth at the moment is: blahgging

Blahgging is more about cheap therapy for the blahgger than it is actual value for the reader. Sad but true.

You’ve been warned…

Now, as I’ve stated in the past, I can be moody even on the best of days. I’ve joked that the gene pool from which I sprang could’ve used a bit more chlorine (right big sis?). In a great many ways, I don’t come from, shall we say, the most emotionally and/or psychologically stable stock. I come from a long line of people who’ve been known to fall into “deep blue funks”/melancholia/depression/insert-your-favorite-term-here. It’s not all bad, mind you, as there’s some really good stuff that’s also in the mix, and God knows that we (big sis & I) didn’t get the worst of the genetic cocktails out of all our cousins (did we sis?). Because, at the very least, God saw fit to give us parents who were the respective best “products” of their families. The same is true wrt our grandparents (which is pretty scary when you consider one of the four, isn’t it sis? :shock:). So, I try not to complain or feel too sorry for myself. I don’t always succeed, but I try nonetheless…

That said, I’ve been in a bit of a trough the past few days. More specifically, I’ve been struggling with my recurring feelings of “impending doom” — where I don’t have any specific fear(s), and I logically/objectively know that there’s nothing bad about to happen to me, but I still have the vague worries & fear of that “impending doom”. Hopefully, writing about it will help pull me out of it sooner…

So, that’s a major reason why I haven’t been blogging, even though in my head there are a lot of things that I want to write about. I just need to work through this strange, psycho-emotional, writer’s block.

Another factor is that, for no good objective reason, I’m feeling the need to investigate options other than Wordpress for powering my blog. As good as WP is, it will not be able to easily/elegantly/or-even-possibly serve as the engine for a project that I have in mind. I think I want to develop something that enable me to host several blogs in a more coherent & easy to administer fashion, along with things like having a document storage & download area — sort of like a confessional lutheran blog & reading room. The thing is, that means that I have to evaluate & settle on a CMS-type application option that strikes the balance between all the functionality I want and all the ease of administration that I (to be quite honest) need.

I promise to try and be more constructive in the very near future, such that I cease blahgging & return to blogging…

-ghp

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Tags: blogging, personality, sadness