There seems to be a bit a general theme to my very sparse entries. Largely related to the news (politics and the economy). The problem is that I'm boring. Or rather that a lot of the interesting things I could talk about are work-related. And I'd rather not talk too much about that. So I talk about the other things on mind, which are largely influenced by listening to NPR during my morning commute. The thing that leaves it sort of unfulfilling is that I don't really go into a lot of detail, mostly because I'm more interested by things I don't know in great detail and it doesn't feel right to pull stuff out of my ass when I am perfectly capable of researching and making a reasonably informed post. The other aspect is that writing at length about some of the things I know feels masturbatory and dull.

This all is sort of a problem in my conversation as well. There is the habit I've always had of being rather elliptical. I don't mind being concise, but I find myself expecting others to fill in blanks. It's more recently that I find myself speaking with some tone of authority on things I don't really know a lot about. I fully admit that I have not taken any classes and have not done a ton of reading on my own, but that doesn't stop me from advising others with how I think the economy works. I could do that here, but it feels wrong putting it so solidly in place, as opposed to ephemeral nature of speech in the ether.

I suppose I can resign myself to short entries on the movies I've recently seen (The Fall was beautiful) or the video games I've been playing, but it feels wrong to say so little about things that mean so little. But in the interests of not being paralyzed by trying to craft these entries into some refined form, I'll post this one without further editing. Until I notice a typo and have to go UPDATE the DB. (I should really just use Blogger.)