Boring

I'm concerned I may be boring. The signs are all there--I dislike all team sports, I enjoy grammar, I only watch movies for which I've seen previews, I couldn't even come up with a clever title for this post.

Do boring people realize they're boring? Do they themselves experience boredom? Do they endeavor to be more interesting and simply fail? What if I've been boring my whole life an never realized it? Or worse, what if I've recently BECOME boring! What if the reason that I've been unable to write a decent blog post for months is that my interestingness is shriveling up like an old...nothing. I've got nothing. No good analogy. This is troubling.

What fascinates you? Aside from everyday celebrity gossip, news about family and friends, and the latest plot developments on your favorite show, what are you dying to know more about? What things do you google when you should be working? What things do you want to take a class to learn more about? What things are worth an extra trip to the bookstore?

What captures your imagination?


I'm into:

The Mafia, The Godfather, Al Pacino

New Orleans, voodoo, Cajun and Creole culture, Marie LaVeau, the “laissez les bons temps rouler” way of life

Western Civ—ancient Greece and Rome, the spread of Christianity, the Middle Ages, the Crusades, the Plague, the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation, the Enlightenment, the American Revolution, the French Revolution, Industrialization, WWI, WWII

England, history of the English language, kings and queens of England, the Elizabethan Era, the Victorian Era, Canterbury Tales, Jane Austen novels, issues of class and social hierarchy

Romantic poetry, early Modern poetry, Hopkins, Whitman, Hardy

Epidemics, infectious diseases, cholera, diphtheria, tuberculosis, viral hemorrhagic fevers (like Ebola, Marburg, dengue, yellow fever), public health

Television commercials, jingles, branding, product placement


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Hello again

Hi. Been doing a little re-vamping. Found the more "user-friendly" Beta-Blogger to be not so user-friendly. Two hours later, I think I'm done for the day. More to come.

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