Ah yes, this blog.
It's funny because I haven't posted one here in about two months. It's actually not funny because blog participation is pretty important to my grade for this class.
So I suppose I have a few options here.
1) I can continue to just not post anything and see how that affects my grade,
2) I can just pick up where I left off,
3) I can write ten blog posts today.
If I do go with my third option, I'm wondering what my story is there. No one can just be silent for two months and then totally unload all of this information without some sort of explanation.
I could make up some sort of story about how my laptop was broken for two months and I forgot my Blogger password or something so I just wrote little word documents and finally uploaded all of them today. But that would be dishonest and I don't really like to think of myself as a liar or a cheater.
I guess I could be honest-er. I could readily admit that I forgot about this blog. Even though Dr. Ballenger mentioned it in class several times, by the time I walked back to my room in Driscoll the idea of blogging had completely slipped my mind.
But if I were to be one hundred percent honest I could say that I did forget to blog only if I followed with "because I suppressed the memory of the blog's existence...because I hate blogging."
Thomas Hobbes says that men only do things because they want to. And I think that's incredibly true. I mean we say that we don't want to do the things that we're doing, like "I don't want to write a 12 page research paper." But I do want an A in English, so I do it. Because I want to. And that is why I blog to you all now. Because I "want" to.
Ashley Bates
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