For Blog's Sake ....

Interesting blogs are either funny or they are controversial. Mine are neither. I want to fit in. My friend constantly reminds me .."You’re such a wannabe!". So I try to write something funny. Soon I realize I am not that funny. I want people to laugh at what I write, not at me. In my angst to finish the blog, I decide that controversy is for me. But I'm such a chicken, that anything that I really want to write, I'm scared it will offend someone. I thought of commenting on Harriet Meirs...left or right I would get killed. Then I saw Kingdom of Heaven. So I thought Christians-Jews-Muslims was an interesting topic to talk about. Now I will really be killed. So I just gave up.....

My LODBF (Legion of Dedicated Blog Fans) constantly reminds me that to be a blogger, one must post often. Once again mob mentality kicks in and I am forced to write something. I think Douglas Adams would have made an excellent blogger. I saw that Hitchhiker movie, and I must confess that I have not read the books. But I firmly believe that Mr. Adams is like me. He is a writer, I am a blogger. He writes for the sake of writing, I blog for the sake of blogging. However, we differ on uno point and uno point only. His novel is funny simply because it’s so preposterous. My blogs are not funny.

The art of blogging - so I'm told - is perfected when one lets oneself lose so as to allow thoughts to flow freely. I think I'm getting there. I definitely don’t want to be left out of what the media calls the "revolution". I want to say "I have a blog too". I therefore spend a lot of time trying to figure this blogging thing out...even if it is just for blog's sake.

A week later...

I was severely reprimanded by my dedicated legion of blog fans that I should not only post, but also read the comments posted. This blogging is turning out to be more work than i signed up for. I have to write BS, then I have to publicise it for people to read and then I have to read their comments.

This week has not gone the way I would have liked it to go. After all the diligence i put in for the app, I found some errors (thanks to the keen eyes of a friend). What can I do though...its out of my hands. So I'll sit back and wait ... and if I get dinged - Bschool-speak for reject - then I have something to blame it on.

Work is a bitch. I havent been able to give it the attention that it rightly deserves. I better clean up my act this week. It is funny to think how i sit in my office pouring over things that have no direct bearing on people's lives - except of course if you count the benevolence my paycheck bestows on Indian Tandoor and Punjabi Tandoor.

Great party at Abha & Mishraji's place yesterday night. The food was awesome and the raitha - a concotion of the maestro himself was out of the world. The usual suspects were in their best entertaining form. I had fun.

Time to hit the essays again.....this time it is for Chicago. I must say that this blogging is helping me get back into the groove of writing again, if not anything else.