ONE YEAR OF BLOGGING !!!!!!!!!!
It's kind of surreal to think about, but today marks the exact one year anniversary of me making this blog site. This blog sits in a sort of liminal temporal space in my mind: it feels like I've had the weekly pressures of posting to this site for almost forever, but at the same time it feels absurd to say that I've written 106 blog posts in the span of a year, with most trending above a thousand words each. Being conservative, that's at least 106,000 words written this year, which is more words than in the Hobbit book by J.R.R. Tolkien. Man, you're telling me I could have written the Hobbit in a year instead of a bunch of blog posts that no one reads? What a waste of time... I'm joking, of course. Even though comparing my estimate of how much I've written for this blog to classic books in literature is kind of breaking my brain (seriously, this blog has more words than 1984), writing a bunch of words was never really the driving motivation ...