I’ve been a little out of pocket lately, considering I’ve been half a world away. I know it’s not realistic to think I’ll catch up on everything you all have written over the last week and half. So, help me know what I need to read!
What post of yours did I really miss out by not reading?
Today’s the day we put all the ugly orange and scary creatures from Halloween back in the closet.
But it’s also November 1. The beginning of a new month.
The beginning of NaBloPoMo.
This is my third time to participate in National Blog Posting Month (but please, call it NaBloPoMo). It’s what got me started posting more regularly, rarely posting less than 5 days a week for the past two years.
I hadn’t thought I’d be able to participate this year, with jetting off to Turkey and all. But then I realized, I’d want to post every day during that time anyway, letting you all know how you can pray for us.
So, here I am. Happy NaBloPoMo!
Time again for a search roundup! Let’s see what googling skills brought people to the Ignorant Historian:
“ladies and gentlemen, skinny and stout”
Yes?
“who delivered like a historian”
Hmmm. I’m trying to think if I this is a comparison for a pizza or a baby delivery.
“my husband is not virgin”
Good. I certainly hope not.
“what is right girdle to buy to mold body”
No advice here.
“why do I smell when I go for a walk”
Probably because you’re breathing through your nose. If you breath through your mouth, you’ll smell less.
“turn danger into a adjective”
See post title.
“so long as thou are ignorant”
Shouldn’t it be “art?”
“what is a boomer sooner”
A superly awesome cheer for the best team in college football. Now if you want to know what a Boomer or a Sooner is, that’ll take you back to Oklahoma history. And yes, the Sooners were the cheaters *hanging my head in shame*.
Today at the Ignorant Historian, I’m declaring it Hug-a-Lurker Day for 2009 (I celebrated it May 15 last year—I guess this’ll be one of those weird holidays that moves around each year). Sure, I love comments a lot, but I wanted to give some special recognition to those who stop by my blog, even if you don’t comment.
Of all the blogs I read, there are a few I don’t comment on. I know! I don’t start out intending to be silent, but for whatever reason I enjoy reading their blogs, but don’t jump in. I hope that’s not you, but if it is, it’s okay! I just hope the reason that you don’t comment is not because you think you’ll be laughed at or feel like you don’t belong. I might have a loud bark, but I promise I don’t bite! Though I’ll only ever present my point-of-view in the post, I welcome all points-of-view in the comments.
So, my lovely readers, pick up your free hug at the door, and tell me: who are you?
Photo by Kalandrakas
I’ve been going through my archives recently, trying to clean them up, and realized that I have grown as a writer. Some of the earlier posts make me cringe…but I think that’s a good thing. I’ve been writing almost daily for a year and a half, I’d hate not to have made any improvement in that time.
All the same, I’m still working on improving my writing. Some posts I’m all, “right on!” and others I can’t seem to get all my thoughts in a row.
That said, bloggers, what would you say is your best post?
I’m excited because this weekend 14yo “Lana” will be hanging out with me! I was able to introduce her to the wide world of blogging last weekend, so maybe I can convince her to help me write a post!
1. Where are you blogging right now? At my desk.
2. How many unpublished posts do you have in your ‘draft’ box? 10 (actually 11, because this one’s now a draft!). A few our random drafts of already published posts. One’s a completely finished but unneeded post I wrote last year about why I don’t want to go contra dancing, but I’ll go because I promised (my friends cancelled and never rescheduled, whew!). One’s a poorly written post about my pajamas. Two others are half-thought-out posts about a two-year-old Facebook forward and my multitude of interests.
3. Whose blog inspired you to start your own? Good question. Since I started out pre-blog as a Xanga, I’m sure I got started from reading a friend’s or too. It may have been Dana (my college roommate) that led me to jump off the cliff.
4. When do you usually publish your posts? Since most are pre-written (including this one…I’m writing it Friday noonish), I usually set them to publish at midnight and change (the change is whatever WordPress pre-populates as the minute I started writing the post). If it’s posted later in the day, chances are it’s completely fresh.
5. In your guesstimation, how many blogs do you read? I’d guess 180-200. Checking…Google Reader says 194. That includes those that I’m “checking out,” so the number is always changing.
6. How long have you been blogging for? 3 years, 1 month, and 1 day as of the date of this post.
7. Why did you start blogging? I thought it would be a great way to keep up with friends from college, but that hasn’t turned out so much. I’m glad I did it, though!
8. Why do you keep blogging? I love writing, thinking through controversial issues, connecting with others with different walks of life, and making people laugh.
9. If you could only recommend one blog to a friend, which one would it be? I feel like I’m always hyping her blog, so this is obv: Jen, the Dust Bunny Hostage. If you’re not reading her, you’re DEFINITELY missing out.
10. If the internet was “turned off” for one month, what you you do with all the time you used to spend blogging? I’d probably be bored! If I knew it was just for a month, I’d spend gobs of additional time reading. I probably could read 20 books that month!
HT: Carrie
Every year/season I like to think and pray through what steps I need to take to improve myself for that year/season. I love stability and consistency, but I like to improve and change that stability and consistency. You follow? (Yeah, I’m a walking contradiction.)
Well, it only makes sense to do that on the blog level as well. Problem is, I’m only a writer/designer/guru here at the Ignorant Historian, not a reader. When I read my own blog, I just want to fix the grammar, the bad jokes, and the spacing. Other than the bad jokes, you probably don’t care about those problems.
So, what I would like to know from you:
What is your favorite part about this blog, and/or what makes it unique?
What is your least favorite part about this blog and/or what can I do to improve?
Basically, I’m looking for constructive criticism. I like to read “Your blog is great!” as much as the next blogger, but it doesn’t make me a better blogger. Anything you can give me, I’d appreciate! And as a bonus, I’ll email ya back what I like about YOUR blog.
photo by Amir K.
Today marks my 3rd anniversary of being a blogger. Can you believe that? Of course, almost none of you were with me there in the beginning. Regardless, I’m celebrating today with a bunch of 3s:
The 3 Most Commented Posts (without a gimic):
Which Toilet Would You Choose? – 42 comments
Proud to be a Virgin – 42 comments
Rules of Sprinkles – 34 comments
The 3 Longest Posts (that weren’t originally papers):
60 Unimportant Facts about Me – 1,822 words
100 Things for my 200th Post – 1,599 words
And the Hard Questions – 1,175 words
The 3 Shortest Posts:
Happy Fourth of July! – 4 words
He is Risen – 7 words
An End of an Era – 12 words
The 3 Posts That Made Me Famous (okay, relatively speaking):
Dear Fellow Dreamer (leading to being quoted in the Washington Post)
The Spider in the Bathroom Corner (leading to this funny letter)
Welcome my SITStas, One and All (who can forget being the SITS feature blogger?)
My 3 Favorite Posts:
Being Open, Like an Oyster
Orange Awareness Day
Good Friday
My 3 Least Favorite Posts (really, just the visuals behind them):
Where Should the Confederate Flag Fly?
The Before Picture (I liked it at the time, but my room now is so much larger and homier)
“It Ate Its Butt!”
The 3 Most Frequent Tags:
School
Blogness
Reading
My 3 Favorite Titles:
If You Pray for Rain, Bring an Umbrella
The Case of the Reunited Socks
Flip a Chicken Carnivals and Basketball Poems
The 3 Wackiest Searches:
octonutjob
seminar raleigh push my buttons
my lady chicken poem
The 3 Most Revealing Posts:
I Am, I Want, I Have, I Wish I Could
Dear Diary, Part 4
Pride and Power Camp
You want to know another significant bloggy milestone I hit this week? Iva gave me my 6000th comment! I tell ya, that totally blows me away. Thanks for ‘em all!
Here’s to another 3 years of blogging, and another 6000 comments!
Oh, I’m SO loving your all’s (I’m sure that’s grammatically correct…) questions from yesterday! I think that the questions themselves are telling as to what you know about me. I can’t wait to answer them, but it will be a couple of days as I’m at training for most of this week. I’ll try to get some of the lighter answers up tomorrow, and the more serious ones next week. If you haven’t taken the time to ask a question or two, you still have time!
After being an Ignorant Historian for a couple of months, I am finally getting those funny searches that we all love…
“GIVE ME A RANDOM NOUN”
Just because you shout it at me doesn’t mean I’m going to comply.
“snot joke”
I don’t do snot jokes, because I’m not a 10-year-old boy.
“what do historians wear?”
I don’t think there’s a uniform.
“origins of brown noser”
I had NOTHING to do with the origins of any brown nose, real or figurative.
“I,m [sic] loser but I’m a cooler”
WHAT?
“octonutjob”
Again I say, “Huh?”
“Ronneaca likes to”
Haha, is that a new spelling of my name? People drop the second “n” (or add “Ve-”) all the time, but I’ve definitely never gotten that one!
“nicknames for Ronnica”
How about Ronners, Ronnie, or Ronn? (those are the only ones I’ve had…but once I contemplated going by “Nicki”…get it…ronNICa?)
“scott and ronnica”
Sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S…wait a second, who’s Scott?
“how to waste time fast”
Most people aren’t worried about being efficient in their time wasting, but maybe they should be.
“sneeze nose not coming out”
When I sneeze I don’t WANT my nose to come out!
I hope you all found what you were looking for!
Sorry if you’ve stopped by my site in the last hour or two. I’m not sure what happened, but with the help of anonymous computer geeks, it’s all back! It was quite scary to think that I had lost over 600 blog posts (even if 500 of them aren’t worth saving)!
Check below for the story that I frankensteined together from all your words!