Sorry--just started this blog and it came to mind that everytime I add a post it asks me for a title. Why can't I just start writing and skip the title part? A title makes it too much like highschool. Or, no, actually 8th grade. We had an English teacher who thought that a great thing to do was write a journal. The trouble is, I had a thing about people reading my journal back then. To me, a journal was more like a diary. He was always mad at me because I refused to write in my journal. It may have been just a writing exercise to him. To me--it was an infringement on my privacy.
I think the difference between writing in my journal then and blogging now (I actually have 2 going now) is that I am sharing my thoughts voluntarily with others. I don't really put extremely personal stuff on the blog (sorry--nobody is getting any "juicy details"). Also, for an adult that really wasn't a personal friend (and whom I really didn't like) to read about my innermost feelings was awful. Isn't it funny how our ideas change? Now, I think I realize that he was just trying something new with the class. He probably got tired of reading essays and poetry and book reports and grammer lessons. Or, maybe he didn't even read the entries, just checked to make sure we were writing in them.
In any case, all of our entries then had to have a title everyday, too. I made sure that he knew everyday (or, at least the days I bothered to make an entry) what I thought of his idea, too. I'm sure if he did read them, he wasn't enthused with me either.
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