Adventures with Dr. Lady Cutie Troublemaker

Comment by Rachelandthecity

May 14, 2007 @ 7:47 pm

I get sick of myself all of the time.

Comment by jon

May 14, 2007 @ 9:30 pm

it’s posts like this that leave me in awe. there’s something about the big huge abby personality that is infatuating. that and i’d never know about the krispy kreme challenge unless you’d told me.

Comment by Abby

May 14, 2007 @ 11:49 pm

Awww thanks, Jon. That makes it seem like a good thing! 😀

Yeah, Rachel. You understand. I’m sure you do!!

Comment by Tom

May 15, 2007 @ 9:44 am

Well, I guess I have a different perspective, since I got to know the offline Abby before the online Abby. All I know is that I’m happier since I deleted my blog to concentrate more on photography…

Comment by Kristin M.

May 15, 2007 @ 10:17 am

Ha! Existential crisis!!!!!!!! 🙂

Comment by Abby

May 15, 2007 @ 11:31 am

Delete my blog. Gah! Sounds SCARY! I have 2,462 posts and 500 hits a day! Here’s the existential question. If I delete my blog, do I still exist?! I’m going with the going private option, but it’s taking forever! I have to do it one post at a time. Once it’s all done, it’s there for me if I want it, but not there for everyone else. Containment… always been an issue for me.

Thanks for commenting, Tom!

Comment by Shannon

May 16, 2007 @ 4:17 pm

I have never blogged because I thought no one woould care or read it. But maybe that isn’t the point. Maybe the writer benefits just for writing and getting the things swirling around in your head out. So if it were private, that would achieve the same thing.
Or- maybe you could have guest bloggers.

Comment by Abby

May 16, 2007 @ 5:48 pm

No, guests aren’t the point. It’s that first thing. Putting my thoughts outside me, because there are too many. And I groove on interaction, so I love comments and tossing ideas back and forth. I like the idea of having a blog where a post stays up about a month then goes private. I want access to what I’ve written, but I don’t want the world having all that access anymore.

But that’s the problem. I want to be visible for a month then go underground. Google cache doesn’t allow for that.

Comment by Elizabeth

May 16, 2007 @ 6:57 pm

You know, I was just thinking, it’s ideas like this that created the likes of Google… Not that this would be a simple task for the techno-slow like myself, but who knows? 🙂

Comment by Gomez

May 16, 2007 @ 7:35 pm

Actually I think you want something like this, in a meta-sense;
When the hamster detects that it’s time to shred your digital past, it’s time to shred…

http://www.tomballhatchet.com/hamstershredder1.html

Comment by Abby

May 17, 2007 @ 12:15 am

Now see, I got excited thinking there was a technological tool you were directing me to, but no… just a regular hamster wheel!

Yeah, Elizabeth, I’m a GENIUS! 😛

Comment by Elizabeth

May 17, 2007 @ 8:11 am

What? You aren’t? 🙂

Comment by Abby

May 17, 2007 @ 9:23 am

Um no. Well… I don’t believe in geniuses. Sometime I’m a genius. Not this time, though.

Comment by Carl Weaver

May 17, 2007 @ 2:53 pm

I think there is a way to tell the Google bots not to cache your web pages but I don’t remember how. Maybe I am out to lunch on this but I seem to remember that. If you ask Steve Garfield he will certainly know how to do that.

I think having a blog is a lot like talk therapy. Sometimes what you write reveals something about you that you don’t even see until you read it later. So I agree that it’s important to keep what you write. On the other hand, it may become personal after a while or part of your personal history. Sometimes it’s important to keep that stuff to yourself, like a conversation from the past that simply isn’t as relevant now as it was last month.

Comment by Abby

May 17, 2007 @ 11:35 pm

Yes, yes, yes. You totally get it, Carl. I’ll direct Steve to this post and see what he thinks. He’s always Mr. Helpful about this stuff… and anything, really.

Comment by Beth

May 18, 2007 @ 1:37 am

I guess I’m one of the Abby-lurkers, and I’ll miss your exuberant, honest, very human ramblings when you take your posts private. But I’ll hate not knowing how the story continues… Blessings, Abby, as you make your way through job searches and moves and relationships and …. life… It’s the BEST story, isn’t it, our lives!

Comment by Abby

May 18, 2007 @ 10:49 am

Well, I’m thinking that I’m going to keep it public for now… just taking posts private once they have aged a bit, so it’s not all “out there”! And then, if I do switch to a totally private format, I’ll have it so readers have to log in to read. I really can’t imagine not blogging at all and not having any readers. I like reciprocity and interaction too much!

It’s just a matter of not having EVERYTHING out there for forever. I don’t know. It’s all just something I’ve been pondering. What is most likely to happen is one day, you’ll see an announcement that I’ll soon be going private, and then I’ll need to moderate who can log in to read. It won’t be anything fancy. I’m going to have to think about it a lot before I do it.

Lurkers. I know I have tons of them. It’s funny to me, but I’m pretty open about myself and my life, so I don’t mind. But it’s amazing that I’m still getting about 500 hits a day, even on days with no comments. Crazy!