This Just Plain Isn't Going To Work

I can't keep up a schedule of three updates a week. I missed a full week, due to several different reasons, but I can't keep updating three times a week. I honestly can't. There are a couple of reasons for this.

Interesting, notable stuff just doesn't happen to me that often. Honestly. Most of my days can be summarized by saying "I woke up rather late, went to class, met someone I knew, talked for a while, ate, returned home, messed around a lot on the Internet, bummed around in my dorm, and went to bed." Coming up with things to write about was getting increasingly difficult. This isn't helped by the fact that I set a bad precedent early on for writing enormous blog entries that spanned multiple pages, and was now forced to come up with filler stuff and describe what seem like, to me, very boring activities, just to fill up space.

That's just it - the whole blog was getting increasingly difficult to write. You may have noticed, all six of you that read this, that updates were getting steadily more sporadic in the last few weeks/months. I'd say weeks. The answer to that is that it started feeling like a chore, like something I had to do. There were times when I dreaded having to sit down and come up with a couple of pages of stuff that would be even mildly entertaining to read about. And that's really not the point of this exercise at all. It's supposed to be fun, you know? The funness has declined considerably recently. It almost feels like an annoying, recurring homework assignment.

So I present to you a couple of options for the future of this blog. I'll let the readers, such of you as there are, decide. (Note: Anyone who reads this blog but doesn't often [or ever] comment, well, now's the time. I need to know these things.)

1. I can keep the update schedule as it is, and even update it more often, four or five days a week - but each update will be far shorter than the past ones have been, ranging from about a page on the outside to just a couple of paragraphs on the inside.
2. I can keep the length the way it is, but reduce my update calendar to once a week. A week is about long enough for me to accumulate enough interesting stuff to write about. (And yes, the Increasingly Inaccurately Named Weekly Luke Report flashbacks are beginning, but if I say once a week updates, I mean once a week updates.)

Either way, I'll try to put up a short story of mine about once a week. I've been writing a bunch of them lately, and some of them should be published. Some of them, I don't ever want people to see them. But some need to be seen, so I'll post 'em up about once a week. I may skip weeks without warning or provocation. But that's the way it is.

Bad news, I know, but this is how it has to be. It doesn't help that several different forces are conspiring to rob me of my free time. Between my increasingly-maddeningly-difficult Writing for Mass Communication class, my running around trying to secure the job at Rock104 (oh, on that regard, Mr. Guscott says that when I bring him one more tape, on Friday morning, if it's good, he'll give me a beginning shift right then and there. Woot!), and various and sundry other tasks that are eating up my spare time, I find myself lacking the time to post long, frequent updates, anyway.

(I'll still do these.) The Luke-Approved YouTube Link of the Day is probably going to be (well, it is) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q_iqrvnC_4 I didn't know The Onion even had a TV news network, but here they are, talking about how the US gave billions in foreign aid to Andorra before realizing that it was not, in fact, a war-torn African country, but a wealthy European principality. Good stuff.

REPLIES.

Steve: You should very much swing by. And I'm not sure how many more plays I'll write, but I've been tightening up this one gradually. Your prattle about healthy eating only serves to contribute to my general pool of annoyance on the whole subject.

Michelle: Hiya. And oh, darn, I completely forgot to call you when I went down last weekend. Sorry about that. >_> I'll find some time to meet you before the end of the semester, I promise.

Jake: Well, it's for Joe's own good. Kevin has his reasons for wanting Joe to go away, he just takes a very roundabout way of showing him.

Dad: The trick is that Kevin is not, in fact, a standard teenage male. And anyone willing to put up with him long enough to date him is pretty obviously not a standard teenage female. Kevin went on and on because he enjoys doing it, and his girlfriend is willing to indulge him in it, at least for a while. (The whole exchange takes less than five minutes.) I saw the eclipse, it was awesome.

Mom: See my comments towards Dad's comment. My teacher liked it, and I guess Joe just isn't the sort to hit people.

Karen: I've been editing it bit by bit over the last few days, especially considering as I'm going to act it out at my theater class tomorrow (with me playing Kevin, of course). That's, er, an odd poem.

Olive-Oil Man: Who are you, exactly? And why should I care about the cleansing properties of olive oil vs. shampoo?