Two Years.

So I start Grad School and for two years I don't update my blog? Coincidence? I think not.

Looking at my old posts, I have come to the inevitiable conclusion that I like to update when something pisses me off, or when I'm hip deep in something I think is genuinely interesting. Or, when I'm bored and feel like I'm having deep thoughts.

I'm wondering if I should have more focus here...to concentrate my Blog's content on one area or one phenomenon rather than a sort of random journal of the moments of my life I feel like documenting.

So, I role-play. I LARP. I play video games. I'm a counselor and a student. The counselor and student stuff is interesting, but enmeshed with my professional ethics and confidentiality. How would a client feel if they stumbled upon my blog and saw some scattered detail about them on the internet? Even if I was very careful not to identify them, the detail, that moment of that story, belongs to them and has no place here. So a blog about counseling may be right out.

I'm liking running a LARP. Maybe I'll do that and random self-disclosure news. We'll see.

Is anyone actually reading this, anyway?

Love,
James.

Comments

Bill said…
As the duly appointed representative of LARP Ohio, I say do it. We could always use more good LARP blogs!
10:51 AM
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