Day 2240 - Historical Revisionism & Santa Fe

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So, as of this evening, I am officially alone on Xanga. As I write this, there is nobody left on this website to read it. The one person who was holding out has thrown in the towel, and as far as I can tell, 'we'--and at this point I mean it like the royal 'we'--have reached population: 1. And it feels strange to be writing into a void. The blog has never been meant to attract much attention, but normally when I say 'you' it actually applies to a reader, not a Google keyword search.

But, be that as it may, I've suddenly begun to feel the desire to blog again--more so for myself than any sort of virtual audience. It seems to be a feeling I get a lot as spring approaches. However, every time that I sit down to type something, my mind draws a complete blank. Thus, I have been looking back at my old posts for inspiration, and it's made me think a lot about who I used to be.

And before you--by you, I of course mean the machine(s) reading this--start thinking that I'm about to get all nostalgic-philosophical, understand that I am mostly talking about grammar, sentence structure, and subject material.

My oldest posts have none of those things, and as someone who has now been programmed to fix every error in punctuation and comma usage it slightly drives me nuts. But I made it a rule when I started this project that once something was written it was permanent, and I intend to follow that rule. Some of the posts on this page are really important to me and still bring up some really strong memories. Others are just plain embarrassing. But the truth is, I think they are all important. I realize that I've changed a lot since that first post, and I think that the real me is some sort of hybrid between '-jim.' now and 'Jimbo' then. So deleting the ones I don't like would mean deleting part of who I am now.

That's my thought on Xanga Historical Revisionism. Glad we got that out of the way.

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Furthermore, I'm going to New Mexico for spring break next week, which is cool but also kind of weird.

It's cool because now whenever I watch Newsies and Christian Bale is singing about how he wants to go to Santa Fe, I can yell at the screen, "I've been there Christian Bale! You may be Batman, but I've been to Santa Fe!" And I think I'll enjoy that profusely.

It's weird because New Mexico is where my parents lived before I was born, and all I can do is picture my kids vacationing in Colorado someday. They'll be staying in a hotel near where I am sitting right now and planning their excursions around the state. Maybe they'll visit the places I went when I was growing up. Maybe one of the excursions will be to visit this house if it's still here. I never thought of a duplex as a tourist location, but maybe it is.

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Lastly, I just found out that Conan O'brien is doing a touring show. Rest assured, tickets will be purchased soon.


-jim.

P.S. This post was somewhat bland and lacking in any poetic value, and I am completely aware of that. But really, it's only being read by robots, microchips, and possibly Skynet, so who do I have to impress?

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