Anniversary

I completely forgot to commemorate this blog's 2-year anniversary a few days ago (October 6th). Last year on that date I posted a "First Anniversary" entry in which I did a fairly thorough analysis of the blogging and commenting that had transpired in the previous 12 months (including a neat Excel graph!). I got a little bit of criticism for being over analytical, so I won't make another month-by-month graph, but I still think it's interesting to look at some stats.

Overall, there seemed to be fewer comments this year compared to last year. Interestingly, the aforementioned "First Anniversary" post had the most comments with a total of 11. In second place was "Useful Degree" with 10 comments. Finally, in third place was "The Wave" which elicited 7 comments. Those numbers are down markedly from last year, but it's probably my own fault for not posting as much as last year.

On the First Anniversary post, I counted 107 total posts, but since then I only count 65 posted entries in this second year. I do, however, have a lot more unpublished "draft" entries, indicating that I was still writing plenty, but I didn't like what I was writing so I didn't publish as much of it.

Like I said, I'm not going to make a month-by-month graph for your viewing pleasure, but there are some month-by-month trends that I notice. Last year I noticed that I tended to post more blog entries when I was busy with school, and I notice that trend again this year as last October through December were noticeably my most prolific months. Those were also the three months when I was going crazy finishing school, working at my linguistics job, AND getting hired and trained for my upcoming bus driving job. Conversely, March, July, and August were all pretty lackluster months. I must have been feeling particularly dejected in July because I wrote a lot of drafts, but only managed to publish three entries; one about a dream date with Judi Dench, another called "Deleted" which almost doesn't even count as a real post because I didn't really even say anything in it, and finally one post about my road rage incident.

Okay, so it looks like I've gone and over-analyzed my blogging habits again this year, but I think it is interesting and I enjoy reflecting upon it a little bit. I also enjoy going back and reading my posts and remembering what I was doing and thinking in months past. Anyway, keep the comments coming because I always enjoy them, and I'll try to keep writing posts, not necessarily for your entertainment, but more because I enjoy reading them months and years afterwards.

Today I'm putting up a video from M.I.A.'s awesome new CD, Kala. The song is called "Jimmy." Like most of her videos, this video is kind of strange, but I think the song (and all the other songs on the album) is pretty cool.