But an old lover’s siren song pulls me back…

So I’m going to maintain this site as the “central repository” for all my writing, but as far as blogging goes, for now, I’m returning to jasonwrites.xanga.com.

So much for exploding… Blogging (well) is not easy. Who does this anymore, in this age of Twitter and Facebook?

Millions of people, apparently.

I wonder if I worked all of my social networks, could I get to double-digit comments on my posts here? I used to manage that, back in my Xanga days, when blogging was still relatively new and novel (circa 2002).

But I’d have to write something that people actually want to read.

I’m working on that. In the meantime, I’m going green and recycling. I imported my Yahoo! 360 blog here, and here’s one of the first posts there, from the day I learned of my student teaching placement. This can be my way of reliving my journey from the preservice, wannabe teacher I was then to professionally-licensed, non-probationary, M.Ed.-seeking teacher that I am now.

I last posted here July 12, 2008.

I tried to post on April 12 to mark nine months passing since that last post (you know, like a pregnancy) but it didn’t go through.

The July 12 post noted that there was one month to go before school began. I could have posted on April 27 to commemorate one month remaining before school ends. But I didn’t.

At this rate, living by the moniker “jasonwrites” is passing from a state of hyperbole to outright fraud. It’s never too late to change, though. And yes, I know I’ve said this before.

Teaching is a tremendously time-consuming and exhausting profession, but there are plenty of teachers online who post engaging content during the school year. If I added up all the time I wasted researching new browsers (a strange fetish of mine) or surfing through Stumbleupon or FanIQ, in addition to all the other ways I use my computer to avoid grading, I could have written and shared tens of thousands of words.

From the evening of May 26– the day before the last day of school– through at least the next four days, I’ll be the only human home, and so I plan to have a veritable explosion of digital verbosity then and re-establish my presence. But in the meantime, I hope I can gather two or three readers to encourage my trickling back to relevance.