Some blog thoughts

I haven't written in a very long time. I find that more and more of my energy goes into writing Facebook updates and fooling around with Twitter, in part because of the instant gratification of getting comments (especially on FB). It seems so much more interactive than this blog, where I very rarely get a response to what I write. I suppose if I wrote more (or if I wrote about things of more general interest) I would get more comments. Either way, this blog serves more as a journal - first a journal of my pregnancy, and now of Melina growing up, and a journal of the non-Melina things that interest me. But of course a traditional journal is private, and this is public. I have a lot of mean-spirited, irresponsible, irrational, excessively deep and private thoughts that don't make it to this page. So I guess I need a handwritten journal as well. A private handwritten journal, a public blog, a breezy collection of FB updates, and perhaps a Twitter feed as well. That's a lot of recording.