It’s been a while

So here, I am, I have been putting off this post for a very long time now.  I’m not sure why but the thought of blogging has not appealed to me for quite some time now.  Maybe it is a lot of the self promotion I see out there in the edublogospere, maybe it is the lack of originality of ideas out there leading to my blog depression (A sincere thank you Jeff Utecht for killing the phrase 21st Century…. yesterday, I thought I was the only one ready to go 21st century crazy if I heard that phrase one more time), maybe it was my laziness.  Mostly it was me having these feelings about my own blog.  What was I writing?  Was any of it worth while?  What was I trying to do with my blog? Why blog when I get much of the same information from twitter in 140 characters or less?  I have asked myself many of these questions, many times over.  I am not sure I resolved any of these feelings but I do feel for some reason, I must return to my blog.  I have a ton of new stuff swirling around in my head after starting a new job this year at the SAS.  The move alone is enough reason to start writing again, but the new job is definitely not the same as the old job.  Moreover, I feel I need somewhere to vent, somewhere to reflect, and somewhere to laugh at my experiences.  In the past my blogging has taken on kind of a survey of my netvibes account, largely responding to posts put out there by other people, adding my opinions to theirs.  I hope to go in a different direction now, focusing on my interests in both life and academics.  I just revamped my netvibes yesterday to include more material on something I am deeply interested in k-12 distance education.  It’s amazing how much that can change your outlook, much like rearranging the furniture in your house or even moving to a new place for that matter.

So, onward and upward, back to the blog, back to reflecting, back to an old friend who waited patiently for me.