Don't doze off quite yet...

In a brief conversation the other day about writing on this medium, it was determined that sometimes online journal writing can provide a positive, creative, accessible outlet. At other times, it can simply spell out to you and your small, modest reading audience how trite, cynical, or tiresome your life is. I'm sitting on the fencepost right now but I am feeling the latter pulling me to one side.

Most recently I talked about the following:
1. Oakland
2. dune buggies
3. ticket fee schemes
4. company picnics

Good God.

I am very concerned - not only at the apparent mediocrity in topics addressed here, but also concerned for the trajectory of this journal and what ill effect it has on people's perception of my idea of publishable reading content.

Some suggestions thrown out by friends were to begin writing about sex (ding, ding!). Basically, I could strive to be Carrie Bradshaw or that annoying lady in Elle magazine, E. Jean Carroll ("Tormented? Driven witless? Whipsawed by confusion? - ugh...). But that gets tiresome in my book, and it's been done a million times over. Plus, the people who really know me would suspect abuse of creative license. Despite the fact I could probably write some entertaining pieces on this topic, at the end of the day I don't really want my personal life (or my supposed personal life) being consumed by my peers like cheap, over-salted snack foods in front of their laptop screens.

Another suggestion I thought might work is to start doing more mainstream stuff - commenting more on political maneuverings, the latest Washington, DC scandal, stuff that has a national appeal. But I don't want to get into that business more so than I do so already. I think my seven years working in Washington has given me my fill, so to say, and presently I have no great appetite to suddenly begin political blogging - unless it's an especially salient topic or scandal I cannot resist to address (like David Souter getting beat up while jogging).

I'll leave my doldrums here. It just might get better. But who knows.