I might be back...

After posting a blog late last night (in truth this morning) my friend Shane Grant suggested I try blogging over on tumblr. I decided I'm going to give it a try. If I don't like it I'll be back to this one. If I do like it though, you can read me over there.

Back in Action

My friend Rob and I decided that we needed to start blogging. For him its an actual "start blogging" for me its a "start blogging again."

I started this blog almost a year ago as a way of keeping people up to date with my internship. I'm not sure how many people actually read it. I know Steve did. However, I'm going to try to resuscitate this blog in an attempt to do a couple of things:

First of all, I like writing. I like having a venue where I can get my thoughts on paper. More specifically, I like having a place where people can read said thoughts. Perhaps its arrogant, but I'm not the kind of person that "writes for me." Sure I will go back and reread some of my own blogs on occasion. But if my only reason to write was so that I could read it I would keep a personal journal on paper.

Now with that said, obviously I haven't written in a long time. So it might seem like I don't like writing. Not to mention everything I wrote on here before was merely copied from the person journal I had to do for my internship. But don't judge me. You would copy and paste too if you were already writing page long summaries of your day.

I had a blog way back in the day on myspace. It was pretty emo though. So I'm actually a little bit worried that blogging again is going to send me into an emotional state of introspection. Maybe you can help me avoid that.

Secondly, I'm hoping to continue a level of accountability with Rob (the one mentioned above) even though in a few weeks we are going to be going our separate ways. He's going off on his internship. Hopefully his blog will contain some of the same stuff mine did originally. That would be swell. When he leaves we won't be able to go out for coffee at Tim Horton's any more.

While I recognize that you cannot have the same level of accountability with someone via blogging as you can face to face, the desire to still remain connected and a part of each others lives is still there. With any luck we can comment on each others blogs and discuss what we are learning.

Third, (thirdly just sounds retarded) I have a goal for this summer to get through some of the books on my bookshelf. I have a ton of books that I have purchased or been given over the years that I have not actually read. While I probably won't get through all of them this summer, I would like to get through at least some of them. I will probably try to post some kind of summary/review of the books as I read them.

Currently I am reading The Hidden Power of Electronic Culture by Shane Hipps. It's a library book, so I will need to finish it soon. It's about how media (which he defines as "any human invention or technology") shapes faith, the gospel and church. I'm only a few chapters in and don't want to start discussing it until I have finished it, so I will spare you both the review and the summary. But I will try to finish it soon and dedicate an entire blog post to it.

Also coming up I will try to post the list of books on my summer reading list. The ones I mentioned that have been on my bookshelf for the past few years.

Beyond that I will probably write some posts that are dealing with life in general, my thoughts on various situations, and the randomness that will be this next stage in life. You know... the quintessential blog stuff.