Ambivalent as I am about the continued blogging, here I am. There seemed to be a little spate of similar ambivalence a few months ago, as some herders were a) bogged down in the spring semester, b) were finding that much of what they had hoped to say, they had said, and c) they were very busy.

So, ok, all of the above.

I tried for a bit in the spring to blog in response to my class, but found that my students were neither reading nor responding, so I found that the effort there was not worth the reward.

last fall, I thought I could blog about new fatherhood, in a way that tried to question all the expectations about new fathers, etc. Unfortunately, being a new father who doesn't just let his wife handle childcare makes blogging about being a father who doesn't just let his wife handle the childcare really hard.

And early confesisonal entries just seemed, well, self-indulgent and maybe a little too self-revelatory.

Unlike Jason, Matt, and many of the other herders I'm not doing my best thinking about technology, but rather about live performance and theatre, something that technology comlicates in ways I'm just not prepared to address. Sure, I could make this an online review of plays I see, etc. I'm just not entirely sure how useful that is.

So while I may pop in here every now and again, I'm still waiting for a blog identity to form, and with baby christenings, moving (not unlike Jason and Lisa), turning, um, thirty, trying to get some academic prose written, and spending a lot of hours caring for two total cuties, that identity may take a while.

Suggestion warmly welcomed.