A wee bit mystified...
So my previous post was "nominated" by www.ipsosacto.com (hello, cutest name for a website ever, eh?) for a Blog of the Week feature in the Sacramento Bee. While part of me is as pleased as punch, another part of me is asking, "Really? This blog?"
I wrote it early this morning after I realized I haven't blogged in, well, too long. It was a quick, one-off sort of blog, and I'm suprised it garnered anyone's attention. Of course, now I'm watching ipsosacto.com for the voting. Right now my blog is fourth out of five, but that's not all that surprising. The other blogs actually have, you know, some interesting content.
My biggest concern is more that I think I've written some pretty spectacular blogs in the past. Or at least some slightly snazzy ones. But this short little entry from this morning is the one that gets nominated. So strange, ipsosacto.com, so strange.
That being said, I guess there's a little honor mixed in with my disbelief. Vote for me, if you're so inclined.
In other news, my quote of the week is, "Ben Franklin...boasts of his industriousness, but he, too, never complains about being busy, and always has time to publish a newspaper or come up with a maxim or swim the ocean or invent the lightning rod." -- Adam Gopnik, in an essay about the busyness of our lives.
As of today, I'm not busy. I'm industrious.
Comments
First, The Bee offers less than 800 words for the entire article. But, of course, most bloggers, being people who like to write, gush out 800 words in a single post. Seems unfair to let one blogger hog the whole show. So I'm constantly searching for the short posts that can stand alone.
Second, I've worked as a newspaper copy editor for more than 25 years at The Bee. For 19 of those years I worked with a women who hated exclamation marks. I would put together batches of letters to the editor with all sorts of exclamations, only to have the other editor come behind me and take them out. For me, a 45 word blog post with seven exclamation points is just irresistible.
John Hughes