First of all, I would like to apologize for not updating my page for a month, especially when I had Minute and school board content that I could have posted. Unfortunately, May was the busiest month of my life, beginning with my eighteenth birthday and ending with commencement.
I am taking this opportunity to make some changes. Because my high school career is over, I am now using this as my personal blog instead of my professional blog, meaning that more controversial topics will be discussed, indecent speech will be used more frequently, and I will no longer have any content related to The Minute or any other CHS Newspaper-related publications.
Finally, I am abandoning the good ol’ social networking site Twitter: you will not be able to know what I am doing, will be doing, or have already done, unless you contact me through other means. I find the Twitter ideology horribly shallow, as it leaves very little room for insight. In all my attempts in discussing something that transcends the normal superficiality found on Twitter, I have failed, needing to resort to e-mail or some other venue that allows more flexibility.
In addition, I am no longer comfortable with discussing the minutia of everyday life with people I do not care for and people who obviously do not care for me. This (hopefully) does not describe all my followers, but it describes enough people that the change is necessary.
If by a miracle of God these people decide that they actually want to engage in discourse of some sort, then they know how to find me: the cell phone, this blog, Gmail, or stopping by work. For those who are collateral damage, feel free to keep in touch if you would like.
I do hope to post new content at least three times per week. Every day would be ideal, but pragmatically speaking, every day is unrealistic.
Upcoming posts include:
1) My thoughts on receiving the “Most Pessimistic” award
2) The (up to this point) success of the Chicago Cubs
3) Thoughts on the literature I will be reading over the summer
4) Excerpts of drafts of a book I would like to write about Meijer
If you have a question or general comment over anything that I have said, feel free to leave me a comment, and I’ll get back to you ASAP.
Ah Spencer….I will miss you on Twitter! Yes, Twitter is shallow. How can it be deep in 140 characters? My philosophy: it is to let others know what’s going on in your life, to stay connected. Doing so in 140 characters is a lot easier than writing emails….because we all know that we eventually just stop being motivated enough to write long emails all the time.
You should at least post links to your blog so that everyone knows when you update.
I also think that people care about you more than you know.
Just my opinion as a friend. Do as you wish and what you feel comfortable doing.
~Robin
By the way…isn’t it against some man rules to have a blog that is light pink and mauve? Stutzman would not approve.
Good for you Spencer, I look forward to reading about your choice of literature for the summer.
Responding to my Robin’s comment (I’m going by paragraph):
1) Your philosophy is very similar to what my philosophy was. It’s nice, but I feel that it is almost too easy. I find no reason to constantly tell people what is going on to certain people there: it’s a waste of time.
E-Mail is just one example, which provides a more private setting, although they do tend to be a little long. Some other venue could work too.
2) That’s not a bad idea; perhaps I will do that, but if I do not, hopefully you will stop by at least periodically.
3) We’ll see.
4) Looks red on my computer, but pink does indeed violate the man code. In fact knowingly doing so is punishable by death, so I’ll find a different one asap.
And Travis, thanks for your kind words.
Spencer,
Not sure I agree with your assessment that Twitter is shallow; I have a feeling that you think people, in general, are shallow and that you like to keep your circle of friends small (Twitter adds a lot more noise and such).
But, I think you already knew that about yourself, eh?
Nice to see you at some of the Open Houses and perhaps I will bump into you at Meijer before the Valpo run. Oh, and BTW, my Giants just might hit .500 before the break.
Peace,
Judson
P.S. FYI: I removed the staff blog page from JLab140 as most of you graduated and most of your content would not fit a “high school” audience.
Well, explain to me why you may not agree with me about Twitter’s supposed shallowness. I will give you that a significant part of my decision to leave Twitter had to do with me wanting to get away from a large number of people who quite honestly disgust me, people who by their words say one thing but but by their actions say another (this especially hurts when those fuckers proclaim me as a friend but fail to truly embrace me as such). Still, though, I do believe Twitter to be shallow.
About the Giants: I doubt it but if they do, it will be because they play in such a weak division. Only Arizona has an above-.500 record, and now they are fading too.
Thanks for commenting, and if you stop by, hopefully it will be on the correct day and time.
I kind of figured on the reason for the unTwitter; life moves on, you know?
Ah, Giants are 6 games out of first place (that’s all I was talking about, even though the division is a bit shallow this year). Looks like the proof will be when the Cubbies come to town the beginning of July…that will give me bragging rights over the “Oops, I dropped it again” Cubs.
Peace and see you around,
Judson
Highly amused by the post of being too good for Twitter. Also amused by your disgust and contempt for all of us (knowing full well that I have upset you by purposefully ignoring you in public).
Adieu, then, and please get rid of the Christmas background.
Dear.
Being “too good” has nothing to do with it, Kelly. I see no purpose for it in my life, so why use it? Whatever makes you feel better about yourself though.
Also you generally being a bitch is upsetting not to my well-being, but simply in general. Oh well though. I would say more but I doubt that you will even read this, let alone respond.
See you in November.
P.S: On second thought, at least you left a comment sharing your thoughts. Thanks.