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Blogging for the mind

I think writing thoughts down, just not thinking them, is a good exercise for your brain. At the very least it can be an indicator of mental decline: Whoa, this sentence makes no sense; Jody is losing it. Of course, you yourself have to notice this if no one reads the damn blog. But that's another plus for writing; nobody reads this stuff but it looks okay in a nice template and kind of makes you feel that you have done something.

Ideally, you should only write when you have something worth expressing. However, it is fun to see the little posts pop up on the computer screen, so you write about something - anything. That doesn't make it interesting, but it does make your mind scramble around. This wouldn't be a problem if something happened everyday to you that people might be curious about: falling off a roof, meeting a wolf, getting your foot caught in a register, meeting the Queen. But here you are in your dull life and so you just get your kicks from putting a noun and a verb together with an adjective and, if you are daring, an adverb. That's okay. Nobody reads this stuff.

posted by Jody @ 7:14 AM