want some cheese with your whine?

By Todd Stadler · Monday, February 19, 2001 6:01pm

You know what is tedious? Editing content. I'd love to be sitting here right now, designing my webpage to be easy to use and attractive.

But instead I'm reading old e-mails I wrote to myself in the hopes that they would someday be converted into journal entries like this. And I didn't do a superb job in writing those e-mails, either. Sometimes I left myself notes like "write about trip to Pancake House", hoping I'd fill in the blanks later. Now it's later, and I don't want to. I am my own taskmaster.

I just find that writing isn't something I can do ad nauseum. I eventually get tired of thinking of how my words should flow. This is probably evident in a few of my entries.

So why am I doing it? I don't know. Probably some misguided sense of who I am and what my place is on the internet. Maybe I want to be famous. Or maybe I just want a good website, but you have to have content before you can have good design. In spite of massive amounts of attempted evidence to the contrary.

Besides, this is my day off, and doing menial things doesn't seem appropriate. If I were at work, I'd be fine, but not on President's Day, the most holy day in all of democracy!