Bonjour friends-

I don’t know if any of you ever click on the links to other blogs on the right side of the screen, but if you do you will have noted that the three blogs I link you to have been non-existent lately. Amber hasn’t blogged since February and Meghan and Lisa (with the exception of one blog each in the last few days) haven’t blogged since early May. Now, this is not a commentary on blog ettiquette, it’s the introduction to an article I read last week in the New York Times called, “When a Blog Falls in the Forest and No One is Around…”. Great title, no?

This article was about how people get all excited at the start of their blogs and then tend to fizzle within the first year. How we start out so ambitiously with making frequent postings and then fail to live up to our own expectations and fall under the pressure of it all (usually self-imposed). The article wasn’t just about us small-time bloggers who go missing but about big-time bloggers who have hundreds of thousands of followers and one day fall off the face of the earth never to be heard from again. It was pretty interesting and made me think of my remiss blogging friends. I think for us small-timers if you haven’t blogged in a while, you start to feel like there is so much to tell that you don’t know where to start. However, I approach it like this-the readers don’t need to know everything. And the ones who need to know exactly what happened are people you probably talk to in person or on the phone and so they already know. I don’t get to bogged down by this need to back blog or tell people everything, as evidenced by the fact that it’s been 6 weeks since my return from Europe and I still haven’t blogged about the last 5 days. So, fellow bloggers (Meghan, Lisa, Amber) write on about whatever you want, not what you think we want to hear about. It’s your blog.

One last blog comment for all bloggers, not just the three above mentioned: if you aren’t going to blog anymore, then tell people. Just post a little “hey, I’m not going to do this anymore” so the rest of us don’t waste our time linking to your blog only to be disappointed by your absence. For serious. I find it rude and it leads people on.

In unrelated book news, my need to read actual books is starting to eat away at my soul-that’s right, I said soul! After hanging out with KP (9th grade teacher) this week and talking to her about books that she has read recently and loved (For Erica this includes City of Thieves, Julie and Julia and the biography of John D Rockefeller which she said rocked) I am yearning to read good, intellectually stimulating books. YEARNING! If not for my school work and it’s hundreds of pages a week of required reading, I fear that I’d be unable to spell my own name at this point and it’s only been a month. And it’s not that I don’t like what I’ve been reading. I mean, I love children’s literatur and there’s never a bad time for it. Unless you know it’s all you can read and then suddenly, it is a bad time….Oh no! What if I go so crazy from want of good book that I attack someone coming out of Barnes and Noble.

Speaking of Barnes and Noble and me being crazy. The other day I went to the post office and on my way home (okay, so I had to walk in the other direction) I decided to just perused some of the new books at B&N. This was a giant mistake. At least I was smart enough to realize it the minute I walked into the store. I walked inthe back door, saw the travel books and then the new to paperback section and headed straight out the front door without stopping and while trying to keep my eyes on the ground, which was problematic because I nearly clobbered this kid. Ah, the misery of it all…

Well, I’d apologize for the pointless blather, but I did put it right in the title of the blog, so it’s 100% your fault if you read on and were disappointed.

Weekend preview:

Zak and I are going to try for the 4th time to see the Hangover in the theatre. Don’t think this will be our 4th viewing, rather our 4th attempt to see it, the first three of which have failed.

Saturday the Williams sisters go head to head for the Wimbledon Championship. I don’t know what you’re 4th of July plans are (other than watching Independence Day) but I suggest you make room for this!