November, oddly enough, seems like it wasn’t a bad month for this Tohu Bohu of ours. I wrote 45 entries, which is quite a few more than previous months (Oct-34, Sept-37, Aug-22). Of those, only nine were Book Reports, so the increase isn’t entirely due to my having stocked up on comfort books. Six of the nine were<\/I> re-reads, but then three new books in a month isn’t so terrible, either.\n
Of course, eight of the entries were related to my Parshah project; there were only 28 entries unrelated to either project. And three of those were simply passing along poems for occasions. Plus a few (for me) unusually short entries, simply pointing to other things. So if I want to be depressed about not being a productive blogger, there’s hope.\n
Actually, I have been particularly depressed (note: stop reading now, as what follows is self-pitiful whinging) about the way this Tohu Bohu exposes one of my most intractable character flaws. I have, in a year and a half or so, started a variety of projects: an examination of 21 Conservative Tenets<\/a>, of which Your Humble Blogger examined 17; a discussion of The Tipping Point<\/a>, which I abandoned before discussing the last chapter or writing any conclusory note; my attempt to analyze the convention speeches, which petered out before actually analyzing the two main speeches of the first<\/I> convention; my abortive attempt at a Book Club<\/a>, which got up to the fourth chapter out of twelve; and an Oscars game<\/a> which as of yesterday had no entries. Today, though, there has been an initial entry to the Oscars game, which may not have to be abandoned after all, and I’m able to remind myself that I have written over a hundred Book Reports and am only thirty-one days away from successfully completing that year’s project. I’ve also (I think) well begun on my Parshah project, which although it hasn’t generated the kind of discussion on the blog I had wanted has been immensely valuable to Your Humble Blogger. And, after all, it’s not as if I didn’t already know that I have very little discipline. OK, end whinging and go back to boasting.\n I am particularly pleased to have ninety comments (that is, 90 made during the month of November; there may well be more comments made on November entries). That’s pretty good; October only had 69, five or six of which rightly belonged to September (particularly chatty with 92 comments of its own). On the other hand, 22 of my November notes totally failed to elicit comments, from 15 in October and 12 in September, so I’m writing more but less provocatively. Or, of course, my Gentle Readers have limits.\n Anyway, November 2003 I wrote sixteen entries and had 41 comments, so things are looking up. And I seem to do better in the Spring than the Fall, so there’s the chance that by May I’ll be writing sixty entries and have a hundred and fifty comments (that, Gentle Readers, is a joke).\n None of this naval gazing gets me any closer to the essential question of why am I doing this<\/I> and its concomitant am I doing it well<\/I>, but the important thing is that I have learned how to spell concomitant<\/I>, which has fewer t’s and m’s than I expected.\n Thank you, November, oddly enough, seems like it wasn\u2019t a bad month for this Tohu Bohu of ours. I wrote 45 entries, which is quite a few more than previous months (Oct-34, Sept-37, Aug-22). Of those, only nine were Book Reports, so…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17219,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions\/17219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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