I'm sure you'll notice that the last two entries totally deviated from the theme of the previous ones. It's funny how that happened....
I started writing all of these posts and keeping them in a word document on my computer because that's what I'd done with the previous two blog projects I've published. I sat down one day to start assessing where I stand with literary academia, because I intend to give a presentation defending the importance of our Intro to Profession course, and I wound up hammering out a memoir of my experience at the newspaper. Totally unplanned, and it was almost as though I didn't realize what I was doing until I hit a stopping point and realized "whoah, I must have needed to get that out."
I broke it up and published two snippets here, because I felt the writing of that rant was an interesting experience--my 'venting' out things I didn't even know I needed to vent.
I also published those snippets here as somewhat of an experiment; I was curious to see how my vent would be received by others--does it sound bratty? Does someone out there relate? Is it interesting? Or is it whiney? I can't honestly say because I'm biased at this point in my life, I still have a lot of feelings about that job that I haven't quite processed. But I'm curious to know if venting on the internet can be valuable or if I too have succombed to the narcissistic "woe is me" trap.
Either way I think I feel better, and if I do come off as whiney, that in itself is some criticism I probably ought to hear.
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