a try on being interesting

I have noticed that blogging sometimes makes you look at the world differently. You wonder about the things you do: Are they interesting enough to share with the virtual world? How can I write about them so that my entries are entertaining for my readers? And the most important question, I think: Do I give myself away too much with saying this or that?

I see for instance how some academic bloggers have no problem whatsoever with using their own name on their blog. Okay, if you're blogging about research topics, it might be fun that others can actually find you, but the thing is, you never blog utterly and completely about academic subjects. Blogs are more about the person behind the academic. See for instance Bloggerdydoc from Elin Sjursen, where she brings hilarious and strange happenings together. She writes in a funny style. I just love reading what she writes, because it's written like a column. Is that what blogging and LJ does to us? It makes us columnists of our own life?

Some other non-academic academic blogging:
brain in a vat from Matt Carter (PhD student in Melbourne)
jill/txt from Jill Walker (University of Bergen)
Thanks to p-trick for blogrolling these on overly messy (also an overt academic blogger).

And all that because I thought ranting about looking for a bigger apartment is probably very boring to ye all. :-)

Just want to mention

that it's storming and raining bucket's of water over here.

Correct that: fire hoses of water.