Not a lemming
So there’s this thang going on, called NaBloPoMo, which stands for National Blog Posting Month. The idea is, you should sign up, pledging to write one post per day for the month of November. Various folk volunteer a variety of prizes, and random drawings are held from all the folk who actually complete NaBloPoMo so that they have a chance to win the aforesaid prizes.
An admirable goal.
Really!
So admirable that I tried it last year.
And then, right towards the final third of the month, I missed a day. Oh, the anguish! The gnashing of teeth and rending of garments!
Y’see, Jessica had volunteered a prize of six months’ blog hosting plus a custom-designed blog banner. And I really, really wanted it.
But I blew it. And gnashed and rent.
So this year, when rumblings of NaBloPoMo started surfacing across the blogosphere, I was very tempted.
Very.
They’ve also got this way kewl LOLCat badge. That tempted me even further.
But I kept thinking of the pressure. And the gnashing and rending. So I decided “No go to NaBloPoMo”.
However! Lots and lots of my regular reads did sign up, like Halushki and her sister, Quintessence, ChicagoMama, GrrlTravels, Escaping Suburbia, the Figgy ladies, and lots, lots more. Even PAGent seems to be sort of vaguely in on it, though it might be NaNoWriMo instead (he has done a PAGent noir post). Just check out my blogroll; if you click on a link, you’ve got a 50/50 chance of hitting someone who is participating.
The end result: I am blissfully free of pressure and I get lots of posts from my blogroll.
It’s very neat: I wake up in the morning, look at my Bloglines blogroll, and there are 20 or 30 posts to read. Every. Single. Day.
Woot!
On the other hand, how will I get anything done???
(TShapedGirl says of the dotter, “I just can’t believe that she is capable of stomping a foot or throwing a fit…” May I just say: BWAHAHAHAHAHA! And add that today’s post was almost one titled with some play on “Teenage Wasteland”…though “Almost-Six-Year-Old Wasteland” just doesn’t have the same ring to it. Maybe tomorrow.)
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