You know I just feel the quality of my writing has been down a little of late. You know what would be fun for the blogger set? A 'rate my blog post' feature would be cool because I could gauge the crowd response (from 4 people daily!) and adjust my writing to improve the reponse. The problem is that if you write to please an audience then you lose a lot. I feel that I write best when I write for myself. If I like than chances are others will too. (especially since my tastes are so middlebrow) Hollywood movies are a perfect example of the pitfalls of consumer input. When you want to accomplish something new democracy is bad. Dictatorship is good. If a lot of people try to impose their vision on a project, the ideas get muddled and only the most generic things survive. When you ask the average man has input on your work you can expect average results.
I have decided that I live a manifestly boring life. I need to do something other than teach and workout and sleep. Maybe I should curse at a student. It would be cheap entertainment and all the other teachers do it. According to the students, that is; judging by some of the kids behavior< I think I believe them. Restraining profanity from spewing from my lips when dealing with certain students has been difficult.