This week in the life of …

I’m just going to face it.

My blog is going to go by the wayside this semester.

This blog, that is. Fortunately, that doesn’t mean I won’t be blogging. I’m taking a class with multimedia professor extraordinaire Mindy McAdams that requires me to write two posts a week on a blog.

Sadly, I can’t use an already-existing blog for the class, so I can’t use this one. I’ve run an idea past Mindy, and she was positive about it, so hopefully that blog will launch Tuesday. I’ll post here linking to it and post the link on Twitter. It’s still going to be journalism-related, considering this requirement from the class Web site:

Your blog topic, which will consume your life for the next 12 weeks. Please choose a topic in which you are really, truly, deeply interested.

As I’m sure is obvious by now, the sum total of my interests is either directly or tangentially related to journalism. I wouldn’t be able to keep up with a blog on any other subject.

In other news, I’m working a lot and trying to keep up with school, which I’m doing suprisingly well at. I’ll try to post occasionally, keep up on Tweet o’ the Week and share any developments in my career plans.

I, like newspaper readers, have a short attention span

When I was little, from the ages of about 7 to 12, I used to start random projects of “improving myself.”

These “projects” usually involved some type of cooking, reading books I didn’t really want to read (often poetry or something about Camelot) and starting journals.

I think I started about eight journals during that five-year period. I only kept one of them for more than two weeks.

My pursuit of a blog has been kind of like that.

Consider my most recent blog, Questions of Science.

It was a good idea and a good start. Soon, it dwindled off due to classes, and I was lucky to post once a month.

I honestly don’t have time to go through the plethora of science journalism out there and analyze it. That would be a full-time job, and I’m already a full-time student. I hope to continue commenting on science journalism here, as science journalism is also frustrating, but my thoughts on science journalism weren’t enough to fill a blog daily.

I still want to write a blog, though. My frustrations with and thoughts on journalism are probably enough to fill encyclopedic volumes.

Hopefully, this won’t go the way of my tweenage self-improvement projects.