A big thanks to Deadspin for linking to my response to J. J. Redick's DWI. The first day, I had 1,488 hits. Yesterday, 930. My first thousand-hit day, and probably the only one I'll ever have. I feel all warm and fuzzy.
In other news, I'm preparing to start reading for comps (technically, I've started, but not in any systematic, real way) by color-coding my lists: what books I know very well (only a few), what books I know pretty well (a surprisingly high number), what books I read a long time ago and remember one meaningless detail from (a few), and the books I haven't read at all (the word "yikes" doesn't even begin to cover it). Am I just doing things to prevent getting started? My wife likes the idea, having been through comps herself. Plus, it's pretty cool to pull up a candy-coated Microsoft Word file. But I'm not sure if it's just one of another set of distractions I'm setting up for myself. Like, you know, blogging.
About Me
- Charlie Green
- Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
- I moved to Cincinnati in 2004, knowing little about the city. I've come to love a lot about this city, but it also has a long way to go in terms of sustainability. I hope my blog helps.
5 comments:
Blogging a distraction? Impossible!
Maybe we should blog our progress through the primary fiction list?Can't entice the poets to do it. Even though they READ MY BLOG. Humph.
Also, a thousand hits? Good lord!
Poets can be so lazy. (My wife excluded.)
Oh, yes, I'll be posting occasionally about my progress and what I'm thinking about some of the books.
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