I am going to blog about this SO HARD...

My stated goal for this blog was to write about whatever I felt like.

So what happens when I don't feel like writing about anything?

The problem is, of course, that it seems like a cheat to not write anything. Especially since I've taken that route out for two days (well I was really busy one day and the other my Internet was out but still). And technically I'm still being evaluated on the contents of this blog for school credit.

So what can I write about? Clearly creative stuff like "Jon Vimr Beat Me Up" requires me to be creative, which is a hard thing to force. I've something that I started writing already but got fairly bored with, simply because I'm having a hard time finding the voice of the characters. (I've had an idea for a continuing series of "[blank] Beat Me Up" posts, using increasingly harmless members of the swim team, but I don't want to wear on the impact of the original.)

The easiest thing to do is to blog about whatever's been happening in my life recently, but swimming is the dominating force of my recent life and I've blogged about that enough. Sure, there have been tempting moments, like when Findor assigns a real armpit of a set, I throw out "I'm going to blog about this SO HARD" as a fairly empty threat, but that's really just more of my friendly antagonism then anything else.

(Speaking of "friendly antagonism", I've been told from various people over the last half-year that my personality has changed a bit. This is clearly a result of my being more comfortable with my surroundings, being now a more senior presense at my job and on the Oberlin Swim Team. It allows me to be more forthwright with my opinions. My opinions are generally of the sarcastic, cynical kind. To those who know me, they know I'm kidding, but from people who are getting to know me, I come off as kind of a dick. It doesn't help that sometimes I'm shooting for "friendly antagonism" and overshoot a tiny bit.)

Of course I'm percolating ideas of things to blog about. Random thoughts, TV shows you should watch, maybe I'll even write about today's inauguration spectacular.

But all of that still leaves me out in the cold regarding any subject for today. I guess I could always blog about having nothing to blog about. But that seems like kind of a cop-out.