More Thoughts

It's 8:48 pm, and I have an essay that I need to finish before I go to bed. It's 7 pages long, and I haven't started it yet. At times like this, I question my previous dedication to lifelong education (Read: My thinly veiled excuses to opt into the Queen's student health care plan).

Barring any stunning revelations on either side, I'm going to abandon my seal hunt stories. It appears that my attempts to start a virulent flame war between sealers and protestors on my blog have failed. You can hardly blame me - until recently, my blog was getting over 100 hits a day from my Shelby Cobra photo. Now it's just down to you and me, dear reader.

I'm reaching the end of a pipe full of Judge's Mixture pipe tobacco that I picked up in Boston, and I'm quite literally high as a kite right now. As I tend to have an all-or-nothing approach to my vices, it's probably for the best that I never seriously delved into illicit substances. I can't imagine that having a humidor full of weed would have have endeared me to either of my current employers, let along the thin blue line.

A glass of whiskey won't hurt my essay writing ability too much...

There are times when I look at this blog, and wonder if there isn't something more that I should be doing with it. I enjoy writing, but don't seem to have the same inclination towards creation as I did back in the day. And just when was this mythical day, you ask? It was back when I could churn out five to ten pages of respectable prose in the course of an evening, or when seldom an issue of Golden Words went out with less than three of my articles.

Bottom line, I'm in self-critical mode and wondering what kind of blogging is actually, you know, interesting to read.

Okay, I'm going to throw this one open to the readership. What kind of post should I do next?

A.) Travel story from: Cuba, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Dominican Republic
B.) More random questions posed to the readers
C.) Golden Words articles from the back in the day
D.) Political commentary
E.) Pictures from my new apartment
F.) Chapters of Geriatica
G.) Pictures / reviews of cigars
H.) A profile of a beautiful car
I.) A sample from the angsty prose I wrote when I was in high school
J.) Same as above, but with poetry (though my poetry was never particularly angsty)
K.) Other (please specify)

Here's how this is going to go - an entry needs to get three votes in order to be posted, and I promise to go through with whatever decision is made, provided it falls within the basic tenets of decency and privacy (ie. No nekkid photos.)

Here's the cliff hanger: I won't be posting again until a decision is reached.

Go to it, Interweb. I leave this in your capable hands.