Sunday,
Blogger's blog options have lots of space for things called "gadgets." No matter how many times I start a new blog, I always try to add gadgets, and eventually delete them because they look so out of place. This is usually because I don't understand what the gadgets actually do. Or, I do understand, and I add them, and then I delete them for fear no one else will understand what they are or why they're there.
I decided this time would be different. This time, this blog, I will take a risk and add a visitor count. A real gadget that counts the visits to this blog. But, after about four hours of the counter increasing only when I hit the page refresh button, I was ready to accept defeat and delete it. But this is for research! I said to myself. The purpose of the blog is to document my anxieties, not succumb to them. So I met myself in the middle: I changed the name of the counter from "blog visits" to "Number of times I've visited my own blog." That felt better. It was self-aware. Witty. Dare I even say, post-modern?
But there's no way I've visited this blog 40 times since yesterday. Six times, probably. Maybe 10. But forty? Other people people are reading this. Enter new anxiety: people might read this blog. I'll have to start using spellcheck and proof-reading. I might have to add more gadgets.
Blogger's blog options have lots of space for things called "gadgets." No matter how many times I start a new blog, I always try to add gadgets, and eventually delete them because they look so out of place. This is usually because I don't understand what the gadgets actually do. Or, I do understand, and I add them, and then I delete them for fear no one else will understand what they are or why they're there.
I decided this time would be different. This time, this blog, I will take a risk and add a visitor count. A real gadget that counts the visits to this blog. But, after about four hours of the counter increasing only when I hit the page refresh button, I was ready to accept defeat and delete it. But this is for research! I said to myself. The purpose of the blog is to document my anxieties, not succumb to them. So I met myself in the middle: I changed the name of the counter from "blog visits" to "Number of times I've visited my own blog." That felt better. It was self-aware. Witty. Dare I even say, post-modern?
But there's no way I've visited this blog 40 times since yesterday. Six times, probably. Maybe 10. But forty? Other people people are reading this. Enter new anxiety: people might read this blog. I'll have to start using spellcheck and proof-reading. I might have to add more gadgets.
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