My foundering: let me show you it.
*February 20, 2008
Things have been hard lately. Probably made clear by my inability to blog about anything even pseudo-personal. It's difficult to blog when you don't feel like being honest with anyone, but it's impossible to blog when you don't feel like being honest with yourself.
Also, I'm pretty sure I've written this same post about twelve times in the past few months.
Thank you, everyone, who continues to encourage me, even when my posts are ridiculous and vague and pretty much all-around kind of boring and erratic. Today when I got to work I thought about posting something exceedingly melodramatic here, something to the extent of: "Life is too much. Blog closed down until further notice." But then I got an e-mail from a new reader who says she likes me. Thank you, Jessica. You single-handedly kept this site running today, and honestly (honesty! woot!), your words mean more to me than I can even express here.
Wilco has been saving me a little bit every day. So, you know, if you're foundering too, this might help.
"Either Way."
thank you for using 'foundering' instead of 'floundering'.
- Posted by jen | February 20, 2008 10:09 AM
Hey girl. I still read your blog every day. I'm an email away if you ever need to chat with a lifelong friend. Loves.
- Posted by Deborah | February 20, 2008 10:20 AM
a) thanks for the head's up re: sudoku.
b) i'm glad you like my blog, that's very encouraging to me.
c) i can relate first hand to this post of yours. I've been blogging in some fashion for 5? years now, and whenever I'm not in a good place personally, it's super hard to maintain. if you need someone to ... founder... in person with, we could finally meet up for that starbucks.
- Posted by SarahThe | February 20, 2008 11:55 AM
Don't lose hope. Things will get better.
~Jef
- Posted by Edge | February 20, 2008 12:39 PM
I was going to write last week to see if you wanted to get together for lunch or dinner sometime. But I'm only now doing it.
Interested?
- Posted by chirky | February 20, 2008 5:19 PM
I hope things will get better soon. ~ L
- Posted by Lauren | February 21, 2008 11:20 AM
I can't count the number of times Wilco has helped me. Jeff Tweedy is totally on my top five of musicians.
Hang in there!
- Posted by Gretch-a-sketch | February 21, 2008 9:56 PM
Im glad to see you still taking refuge in music. the new nada surf album is great. now who's being vauge.
rob
- Posted by rob Shirley | February 22, 2008 12:13 AM
i don't know if this will matter, although having read you for a while i think it will. i don't know if it will help you feel better about the blog again, but maybe. i'm not sure that's so important, but what's important is this: thank you for being so honest, for sharing, and for choosing to post this. i read it (and listened to it) during a time when i needed to remember that whatever happened, no matter what came at me in life, it would be okay, that sometimes understanding is less important than just knowing that it's all going to be okay.
so thanks for letting your blog save ME a little bit, and give me some more and a different kind o hope, and introduce me to an amazing new song that i passed on to a friend who was feeling blue and downtrodden as well.
thanks for making a difference. i think you do far more than you even realize.
i, from the bottom of my heart, appreciate it.
- Posted by carrie | February 23, 2008 3:50 PM