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February 20, 2010
What we get from blogging...
I started blogging a good while ago -- I'm too lazy to go through Google cache versions of my Blogspot version to find out quite when it was, but I was leaving a lot of comments on the early blogs of Amy Welborn and Megan McArdle. Both of them, in the nicest way possible, suggested that I should get one of my own. I took their advice.
I didn't set out to meet any other bloggers when I started doing this, but it happens fairly regularly. I've never met Amy, just by the way things have worked. But Megan, who is still Miss McArdle for now, is in Upstate New York this weekend and managed to find time to stop by Geneva for dinner at the Red Dove. I enjoyed showing her my favorite room in downtown Geneva -- and was reminded that it's always good to meet the people we read. Voices spring to life; typing habits turn into verbal tics; tone that sounds happy proves to be a real smile.
I enjoy blogging. If you read several a day you might give it a try.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at February 20, 2010 9:12 PM
Comments
I am glad that you blog. It is a good forum for your wide array of interests and insights. You are the inspiration for my own feeble efforts at blogging. I don't read many blogs anymore, but I never miss The Cranky Professor!
Posted by: JSTB at February 21, 2010 9:17 AM
I'm so glad they convinced you to take up blogging. I'm pretty sure you didn't need yet another writing exercise, but it's good to connect to people outside the classroom or professional setting. I found your blog whilst surfing through the scientific and studious end of the blogosphere. The title grabbed me. Since I had once worked for a Cranky Publisher, I thought a Cranky Professor might also be interesting. You are.
I, too have met bloggers in person and it's an amazing experience.
Posted by: Suzanne at February 21, 2010 9:36 AM
I agree. I've made friends via blogs (oh, how I hate that ugly word!) who were at first virtual friends and then became F2F friends. Others I have never met, but I know their hearts and minds via the written word, much as I know a good author from his/her books. Certain ones have become part of my interior landscape, memorable and loved.
Posted by: Sarah 
at February 24, 2010 2:32 PM