I love Saturday mornings. I wake up, roll on my back, and think, "I have nothing to do today." Bliss.
Which isn't quite true. We're having breakfast with my sister, attending a gymnastics meet, getting my wedding ring resized, cleaning our lovely one-bedroom apartment, and taking dinner to a friend as a thank you for doing our taxes. (Good deal, right?)
But relatively speaking, bliss.
As I'm writing this, I'm thinking, "Who cares about your opinion on Saturday morning?" But then I think of You've Got Mail and her line about sending messages out into the void. She was talking about email (it was the 90s), but I feel kind of the same. Blogging is like sending a message in a very digital, searchable, (even viral) proverbial bottle. You write, click "publish post" and sent it out to the great unknown.
So good morning, dear void. Can't wait to see what today brings.
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Friday, February 3, 2012
Why I'm starting a blog
What happens when an up-and-coming editor/intern/writer gets a full thirty minutes for lunch?
She starts a blog, that's what.
Of course I've blogged before. There was my brief London blog and then my mission blog (which was LEGAL, just for the record). There are also several blogs I've thought of but haven't created.
Those should count, right? Wrong.
The problem with starting a blog... Well, there are several problems. The first is the blog name.
You want it to be light but deep, witty but serious, fun but sophisticated. And (like the perfect pair of jeans) that combination just isn't out there. Or at least it's not for the taking. (I would have said "the perfect man" but--joy be!--I'm happily married. So no man bashing here!)
Initially I wanted something that reflected David's upcoming med school debut... but I couldn't fit "poor newlyweds take on the world as editor and med student" in that cute/clever/sophisticated name. So as I was washing my hands in the bathroom and cursing automated faucets that do not work until the soap is all dry anyway, I thought, "Editorial musings!" It doesn't do justice to the whole broke/newlywed/med school things, but I figure that's what subtitles are for.
And then comes the domain name.
Ah. The domain name.
So I spent seven minutes of my allotted thirty typing in variations on Editorial Musings. Seems everyone else had thought of this particular title, and Blogger's solution was unknown_editorialmusings. Like I want my blog to being with "unknown!" Ingenue, maybe. Soon to be known, closer to the truth. But unknown? It made me feel like some broken link.
Finally I had the brilliant idea to start off with my full name (Jess's would translate to jesss which looks like it has one to many s's), and that is why we are here. At the blog. Still with ten minutes of lunch to go.
Bon appetit.
She starts a blog, that's what.
Of course I've blogged before. There was my brief London blog and then my mission blog (which was LEGAL, just for the record). There are also several blogs I've thought of but haven't created.
Those should count, right? Wrong.
The problem with starting a blog... Well, there are several problems. The first is the blog name.
You want it to be light but deep, witty but serious, fun but sophisticated. And (like the perfect pair of jeans) that combination just isn't out there. Or at least it's not for the taking. (I would have said "the perfect man" but--joy be!--I'm happily married. So no man bashing here!)
Initially I wanted something that reflected David's upcoming med school debut... but I couldn't fit "poor newlyweds take on the world as editor and med student" in that cute/clever/sophisticated name. So as I was washing my hands in the bathroom and cursing automated faucets that do not work until the soap is all dry anyway, I thought, "Editorial musings!" It doesn't do justice to the whole broke/newlywed/med school things, but I figure that's what subtitles are for.
And then comes the domain name.
Ah. The domain name.
So I spent seven minutes of my allotted thirty typing in variations on Editorial Musings. Seems everyone else had thought of this particular title, and Blogger's solution was unknown_editorialmusings. Like I want my blog to being with "unknown!" Ingenue, maybe. Soon to be known, closer to the truth. But unknown? It made me feel like some broken link.
Finally I had the brilliant idea to start off with my full name (Jess's would translate to jesss which looks like it has one to many s's), and that is why we are here. At the blog. Still with ten minutes of lunch to go.
Bon appetit.
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