A couple weeks into teaching a new session of my blogging class, and I feel like a hypocrite because I’m not following any of the advice I’ve given my students, chiefly the following two cardinal rules of blogging: Keep it Short, and Update Often.

If I were to teach the class based entirely on my own blogging practices, I’d tell them to only update three times a month and to make sure each post is a million words long and glutted with florid descriptions of obscure music. The Decade of Music project was interesting in theory, but time-consuming to execute.

“Life is short, and tastes like chocolate.” —Tom Hanks, 1956-2012*

So I want to go back to updating every couple of days. I want my posts to be short and minimally edited. I want them to be blog posts. I want to not take them so seriously. And then I want to figure out if I want to keep maintaining this blog or retire it and move on to the next thing, whatever that is.

*”The Mayans were right. IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD!” —John Cusack, 1966-FindoutNovember13!!!