iceblog

Lots of people tell me, "Marisa, you blog so much." This is true. I do blog a lot. But what you don't realize unless you've already had this conversation with me is that I actually post about half of the blog thoughts that I have, and that now, after two months of training myself to blog every day, my brain works like a blog.

This isn't entirely true. My brain likes to work like I'm a character in a novel - it likes to have rational thoughts, it likes to motivate me in rational ways and it likes for all of my brain processes to be explainable to an invisible audience. I think this is because I am actually really weird (for actuals) and because I like to write so I've kind of always thought like this. But now I have a specific name for it - rather than thinking like a writer or thinking like a character, I'm thinking like a blogger.

Anyway, I have lots of half-written posts, in various stages of production, some of which will never ever be published and some of which may be later combined or finished or deleted. This is because I want to produce the best blog possible and also because I have more than one profound thought each day, so sometimes I start a post and then realize that I have a way better one so I'll save the first as a draft and then write the second awesome one but then realize that I actually like the first one better. Or something like that.

So if the posts that you see comprise the tip of the iceberg of my blog (hereafter known as my iceblog), the submerged part looks something like this:

• evolution and why I think that this is a kind of silly debate
• things that I would tweet if I caved and got a twitter
• how I accidentally became a math major (this one will be written if I ever do declare a math major)
• the statistics of my blog
• best non-titular characters of all time, a list
• why I don't like sarcasm
• coffee thoughts (as suggested by Medina)
• my favorite misheard lyrics

So you can see that these are interesting topics in their own right but I can't blog more than once a day or everyone would be convinced that I don't have a life (you should now be starting to get the idea that my summer actually is comprised of tv, books and blogging and I have not been exaggerating about that). I even have a note on my phone so I can jot down blog ideas and not forget them throughout the course of the day.

My (ice)blog is ever growing. Some people wonder if I will continue blogging once summer ends because I will get super busy, and I don't know, because I have terrible follow-through once I remember how much I love procrastinating before studying, but I do know that even if I'm not posting them my brain will be drafting blog topics for years to come. Or in other words I will continue to have extraordinarily weird and interesting and mundane and slightly irrational thoughts for as long as I possibly can.