Our first INTRODUCE YOURSELF! post is over a year old now, and has more than eighty comments, so I thought it might be time to begin a new one. The first one is full of interesting people and ideas -- be sure to check it out!
Some new folks are coming by, and I'm going to suggest different questions this time, so feel free to jump in even if you already introduced yourself in the first thread. If you have a website or a blog, point us to it. Informality is the rule, but formality is permitted.
Here are this round's (optional) questions. If you don't like these, answer your own:
I'll answer those questions myself, once the ball gets rolling.
As before, I'll link this post on the sidebar so that it's always handy.
The first one was so much fun, I can hardly wait to see what develops this time. And, this time, you have the option of subscribing to the comment thread via RSS, which will make it much easier to keep up.
No, I'm not sticking my tongue out at you. Really.
But I do love that Wild Thing.
Yesterday was the first day of Holidailies, and we were invited to introduce ourselves. Those of you who have been reading Watermark for awhile know me, probably, better than I know myself; but how to introduce myself, and Watermark, to new readers? I could send you to my rather quirky About Page, but you might feel a bit overwhelmed. I've no idea whether my regular readers ever check that out. Do you?
I took this opportunity to play a bit with fd's flickr toys and Picnik to make the above wintry self-portrait. This is one of the reasons I blog: for the fun of it; to play with words and images and ideas.
I am an introvert | poet | snapshotter | blogger. I've been blogging for nearly four years now (with the odd brief or extended break) during which Watermark has collected a surprising number of patient and loyal readers. They (you) are also surprisingly diverse. (Want to know more about Watermark's readers? Check out -- and join! -- the Introduce Youself post.)
Some adore the sidebar, with its widgets and gadgets and pointers elsewhere; some find it unnecessarily cluttered and distracting. Some, who come for my more serious writing, find the cats and quizzes trivial; others come for only those. Some love the look of it; some rarely see it, as they get my posts by subscription or email (check the top of the sidebar if you'd like to join them) and come visit only when they want to comment or I request feedback on a design change.
So maybe Watermark is a bit like Montana weather: Don't like it? Wait a minute; it will change. If you aren't taken with today's post, try again tomorrow.
It's tempting to say that I am like that, too -- changeable and varied and surprising; moody and capricious and fickle. But actually, I'm not. I am, in fact, rather steady and predictable.
This exercise reminds me that one is not always what one seems to be on the internet -- or in 3D life. I am, however, quite transparent here, and tend to forget that others may not be. I'm as surprised when, on occasion, someone doubts me, as I am to discover that I should have doubted them.
But that's another post altogether. In the meantime, here I am. And I'm also, sometimes, at Abide | Resources & Reflections on Living with Chronic Illness; and Blogging Blog | Tips, Tools & Toys for the Personal Blogger.
Edited to add:
One Time Opportunity Is there something you'd like to know about me? Ask, and I'll answer. I won't necessarily tell the truth, but if the answer is fictional, I'll tell you so.
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I had planned to do a series of posts on the comments from the INTRODUCE YOURSELF post, and began that last week -- but I've decided:
So, I'm going to revert to thanking those folks, from all over the place, who have given thought and time to commenting, and enlivening this blog in my absence:
There's lots to explore up there; I hope you'll click a few links and discover that for yourself.
That's Cloud and Blue up there, cooing at each other. I chose them to tell you how much I appreciate you. All of you, who keep coming to visit, and add your thoughts to the Introduction Post, even though I've been mostly absent for a month now.
I'm almost back, though. The drawing class ended last Friday, and my energy will soon turn back to this.
Thank you so much for your patience!
Well. I seem to be taking an unanticipated blogging break.
Cathy thinks I've been abducted by aliens.
Mary tells me she's been contacted by several folks who wonder where I am.
I'm here; I'm just not here. Various things converged to take me away from the Web. Personal and financial crises (all better now -- don't send money); a drawing class that seems to have quite successfully moved me into nonverbal mode; and a return to the interrupted project of organizing my house for life as it is now, instead of how it was.
Also, there is something I need to write about (privately) but I don't want to. And I've learned that, if I won't write what's pressing, I can't write anything. Sooner or later, I'll give in.
I thought I might have a snapshot poem today, but -- not yet.
Wulfgar! has announced the winners of this year's Montana Weblog Awards, and Watermark is tied with Raven's Nest as the Most Creative Montana Blog. This is company I am proud to be in. I'm also well pleased with Wulfgar!'s observation that it's pretty obvious that Mike, Sharon and a certain Sam from a certain creek have a very broad readership.
I'll post the complete list of winners below the cut -- where you should go, for some enriching discoveries -- but first, a few thank-you's:
I also want to thank those folks, from all over the place, who have given thought and time to commenting in the Introduce Yourself! post. So far, we have:
This thread is even more fun and thought provoking than I had anticipated. Even if you don't feel like participating, I bet you'll find the comments, and the commenters' sites, of interest -- check them out -- and, of course, check out . . .
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