When I was little, family members would save cards and things I made. Nowadays, it’s e-mails I need to save:
hi ben today our class is going to a theater to see a play.today we finish erly becouse in the evning we have grandparents day.
love miriam
ben school is hard love Devora
I’ve come to expect less and less from people these days. Friendly greetings are ignored and compliments are shrugged aside. People I once knew and considered friends moved on, and haven’t a moment of time to be a decent person to someone they once considered a friend. People frequently use the excuse that they are too busy to answer an e-mail but I know this to be an awful lie. E-mail and Facebook were supposed to bring us all closer together, but I’ve learned that people just want the ability, but not to actually do it.
Seems to me the answer is just to accept it. If people don’t want to be in touch, or have clearly moved on to be with different people and do different things, that’s where it ends. Not even a friendly greeting should be exchanged after that.
This is a cruel, heartless world and my faith is gone.
I had a silly idea a few weeks ago to pretend to make a movie out of The Winter Classic with the Penguins and the Capitals, and the first fun part was to pick the cast. I turned it over to the readers and they had some great ideas. Then one of them sent me a video. I published this on Capitals Outsider, but I’m so happy with it that I want to show it here, too.
In the past week, twice I was invited to speak to people about what I do.
On Thursday, I was invited by a former coworker to speak to his University of Maryland Online Journalism class. So, I got to return to my old stomping grounds and got to see the brand new journalism building, which is amazing. The students all had Macs, which also impressed me. They were all required to get web hosting and get their own domain, which is already a step up from what other ‘established’ bloggers do. If you have a blog about a certain topic or sport, and you are established on the blogosphere, not having your own hosting and/or domain is pathetic, particularly now that journalism students get it themselves.
Anyway, I told the students some things about my sites and showed them how I use WordPress, the same publishing system they’ll be using. I even told them how Twitter can actually be useful, as well as other things about blogging.
The next gig came before the Capitals game on Saturday. Me, the folks from OnFrozenBlog.com and RussianMachineNeverBreaks.com were invited to the Capitals Fan Club’s blogger panel. They asked us questions and engaged us in discussion, and I had a great time. It was certainly the highlight of the day, considering the Capitals lost 4-1.
My grandmother was actually more impressed that I was invited to speak at these places than I was, but I must admit that I had a good time. Perhaps blogging is a true profession, after all.
