Blogging...what am I doing?

Well, I was finally able to get back on Google Reader and it let me send four links to Dr. Tomer, then it quit allowing me to do that. Maybe it’s just me! Hopefully, Google Reader will eventually allow me to finish e-mailing my links!
I will admit, I never had the desire to have a blog. Actually, if it wasn’t required in this course, I still would not have a blog. And after I am done with this course, I will probably never post again. I really have no desire for others to read my posts and know stuff about me. I have had friends who have written blogs and sometimes they have gotten way too personal and other times they just whined. That’s what I usually associate with blogs, whining. And I will probably, if I haven’t already done so, whine in my blog.
So when I sat down the first time, to figure out what I was going to type, it took me quite a while. I’m used to writing papers for class, researching, answering questions, and working in groups, what I’m not used to is the freedom to choose what to discuss (in context of this course) and how long it should be. Which makes me nervous, I like having guidelines to my papers, for me, it makes the assignment easier. I don’t have to think, will this be enough or did I over do it with this many pages. My first post was an introduction, I figured that was the best place to start. My next post was about my frustration with Google Reader. So how was I going to end my week, I figured I would talk about my issues with blogging! Next week, I plan on posting information about our text book and stuff I find on line. These first three initial posts are to get me acquainted and comfortable with blogging.
One thing my teachers in school and my professors in undergraduate and graduate school have always taught me was to never write how you speak and don’t use contractions in your papers. Blogging is different. You’re supposed to write how you speak, act like you are actually talking to a person. You can use contractions and don’t have to worry about looking unprofessional. After all those years of not writing how I spoke, it was really difficult to change that. When I write these blogs, I always want to go back and change my don’ts to do nots and to make my writing sound more professional. I of course, stop myself and remember this is blogging, not a research paper. I feel like occasionally I will forget and my blogs will sound more like an edited research paper for class, but hopefully by the end of this course, I will actually be able to just blog. Who knows, maybe by the end I will actually enjoy blogging. I highly doubt that, but who knows stranger things have happened.
Have a great Memorial Day weekend everyone!!!