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Five minutes ago, I was out running in the rain, thinking about what to do with this blog. I've thought about that a lot, lately. So now I'm here, in front of our new 23' Apple Cinema Display. Quite the motherf......! Anyway, that's a detour. What I was thinking was: Does a blog really have to be super tight in its genre? (My Swedish friend has this supercool blog, a classic city-single-blog, her friends write supercool comments and I feel so geeky for not knowing modern Swedish anymore.) I've always figured that I should write about my Master's thesis, or my job, or something personal. I don't like personal blogs, though, like this one. But I also feel I talk enough about my job as it is, to friends, Mr. Darcy, my parents, my sister, and it feels bad to be writing about it as well. That doesn't mean I'm going to stop writing about work, though. But I think I have to give myself freer hands as to what I can write about. Sometimes, like now, I like to just write away and just... write (Jesus, now I'm also starting to sound like an American teenage movie).

So, then I was running, listening to Gnarls Barkley, thinking 1) Please stop raining. This really isn't very nice. 2) What blogs do I like. I like Madglæde and I'm envious of the same guy's Bogblog. What about all the books I read and films I see? Wouldn't it actually be quite convenient to have a short comment and analysis of all the short stories and novels I read. I mean, I don't know how my collegeas keep track of all the hundreds, thousands of texts they have read.

But then, what if my students find all my analyses? Then it's pretty easy for then to guess where I'm going in class, and that might not be such a good idea. Not to mention exam - the clever ones will surely check what texts I've read and write down my points? Or am I the only one sneaky enough to have thought of that?

Of course, I could just make this a closed blog and invite the few people who still read it on a regular basis. But I don't think I like that kind of blog either. OK, and yes, I'm a bit too exhibitionist for that, too.

And on my way up the stairs, I thought it shouldn't feel this forced, though, should it? Come on, Nanna, don't make everything into a academic project. God damn, can't you just NOT be embarrased that your blog hibernates? Or can't you just follow that very good rhetorical piece of advice: If you don't have something to say, don't say it.

But... I'm a talker, I can't shut up, can I!?

(and now I'm even more cold from running, sweating and not having taken a shower yet. So, so long.)