SNAKE LAID BARE by Steve Nadis
You turn off your computer for a few days and head off to the North Woods, and you never know what will turn up when get back. Somehow during my absence, a University of Chicago graduate student got hold of this blog and included me as part of his survey of bloggers, which seems to go after the question that philosophers have been debating since the Stone Ages: Why do people blog? Is it for fame, spiritual fulfillment, the endorsement dollars, or the thrill of seeing your name in print, even if it isn't your real name, just a bogus "handle" picked at random for no good reason?
Well, since this was for a good cause--an advanced degree--I answered truthfully and put it all out there, so to speak. The exercise of trying to explain in 20 different ways just why it is I blog, has got me wondering: Just why do I blog? How much longer will this bad habit persist? And will I ever succeed in shaking it? For answers to those and other (equally trenchant) questions, we'll have to wait for Adam from the University of Chicago to finish his dissertation. Which means the rest of you laggards need to fill out your surveys.
