I’ve figured it out, why I haven’t been blogging that much (er, at all really, let’s face it): the world is so screwed up it’s downright boring right now. What I mean is that sometimes the fucked-up-ness of things can reach critical mass and writing anything more about it–no matter how piquant or insightful–only adds to the pain. Let’s face it, as much as we’ve seen (and heard about) the “power” of the blogosphere, there’s only so much we can do when things are THIS bad. After all, despite our hard work and vigilance these past eight years, even our own side ignored us completely!
Any-hoo….Reading Rachel’s blog has inspired me to change mine. Hers has become more of a blog about herself and, on occasion her very personal reaction to some of the political shit (which is fundamentally different from the usual “Hey, look what this dipshit said today, let me rip him a new one in print and try to be oh-so-clever while I’m doing it!” or “And now for your reading pleasure, the contents of my spleen!”).
Aside from being a whole lot easier and more fluid to write, this kind of content–I discovered–is a whole lot more interesting (and less depressing) to READ! So I figured, if *I* think it’s more interesting to read about her reaction to Don Cheadle in “Traitor” (a movie I also adored) and what she personally liked about the depictions of Muslims in it (as opposed to what she thinks others should think about that, or what she thinks others should think about what others think about that), I’m betting other people will too!
More importantly, I’d much rather write stuff like that than sit here NOT writing anything because I can’t bring myself to be just one more person yelling into the eye-wall of a hurricane!
In the words of Caroline Kennedy, “you know??”
Therefore I have decided to let Rachel’s example inform the content of insomnomaniac.com for 2009. Oh I’m sure I won’t be able to avoid writing about politics entirely, but from now on I’m going back to my roots–back to just blogging about STUFF. You may find it intersting or entertaining, you may not, I’m going to stop worrying about that. I’m a mom with three kids under the age of six, one of whom is just now potty-training, another is still in diapers and nursing. I’ll start *officially* homeschooling in the fall, and I run a discussion website in my not-so-very-copious “free time” and you already know I don’t sleep much.
On top of all that I’ve developed a serious addiction to sewing cute little girl outfits out of funky prints (pictures of which I’d much rather put here to share with you than pictures of idiot politicians or celebrities), and I’ve even taken to sewing my own cloth diapers (who said conservatives couldn’t be crunchy?). In short, I’m too busy to force myself to recycle the same “stories” about the lives of other people.
Rachel is moving to the UK (God bless her, I’m still trying to picture her disarmed. It’s a terrifying thought really…), but thank God for the Internet because I know I’ll want to keep reading about her “stuff” and as always, I’m just grateful that she’s out there to remind hacks like me not to take ourselves too seriously.
Case in point? How can I think about the state of the world when my five year-old just came into my room to seek comfort after a nightmare? Now she’s snuggled in looking for reassurance. How reassuring could I be if I spent a lot of time thinking about (never mind writing about) the shitstorm we are in right now?
Answer? Not very.