My Very Important Boobs
I think blogs are cool and political and empowering and changing the very notion of communications and democracies and speech and language and art and community. I get excited about the prospects and future of "new media."
One of the women I met at the BlogHer Business conference last week is a professor, and brilliant, and smart, and even SMARTER because she's also British. And I was excited to chat with her because she was saying all these lofty things about the art of writing-for-blogs and how we define "self" and what we share and don't share and what blogging is doing for professionals and just -- it was a very intelligent conversation.
Well, you know. At least one half of the conversation was intelligent.
Because while I was busy being enthralled and discussing all these lofty things, I didn't exactly think ahead to better position my answer to the inevitable question --
"So what's your blog about?"
-- and so, for all my grandiose ideas and sense of self-worth and self-importance, I'm pretty sure my answer did not quite propel me into the British professor's elite list of Impressive Women.
"Oh! Well, lately I've been writing a lot about cat pee."
The conversation didn't last long enough after that for me to be able to mention that not ONLY do I write about my cat's peeing habits, but I ALSO write about such dazzling, profound things as getting stuff stuck in my cleavage. Go figure.
One of the women I met at the BlogHer Business conference last week is a professor, and brilliant, and smart, and even SMARTER because she's also British. And I was excited to chat with her because she was saying all these lofty things about the art of writing-for-blogs and how we define "self" and what we share and don't share and what blogging is doing for professionals and just -- it was a very intelligent conversation.
Well, you know. At least one half of the conversation was intelligent.
Because while I was busy being enthralled and discussing all these lofty things, I didn't exactly think ahead to better position my answer to the inevitable question --
"So what's your blog about?"
-- and so, for all my grandiose ideas and sense of self-worth and self-importance, I'm pretty sure my answer did not quite propel me into the British professor's elite list of Impressive Women.
"Oh! Well, lately I've been writing a lot about cat pee."
The conversation didn't last long enough after that for me to be able to mention that not ONLY do I write about my cat's peeing habits, but I ALSO write about such dazzling, profound things as getting stuff stuck in my cleavage. Go figure.
and that's why we love you.
ReplyDeleteHey, Shakespeare wrote about the same subjects.
ReplyDeleteahhhhhh...breezy elegance~this is why we love you Kristy!!! Shiree
ReplyDeleteYa know, Kiki, I just felt it the appropriate time to add this: I avoided reading your divorce series up until about a week ago when I started reading a few entries at the end of my work day. I have just gotten through a really crappy break up and felt that it was time that I read it since all of my hope and love for the now ex had up and left the building.
ReplyDeleteI was holding a lot of bitterness, a lot of anger, and just being about as nasty as humanly possible (all for good reason, trust me). But by the time I got to the end of the series, I just exhaled, deeply and fully. And when that breath left my body, a huge weight was lifted from my shoulders, and it has not returned. You are inspiring to all of us, Kristy--we love the cat pee entries and we love the entries that make us bawl our eyes out.
I just want to say thank you, because your words have brought a new perspective to this time in my life, and it's about time that I quit carrying that nastiness around.
Love ya babe!!
Eh. Lofty, self-important blogs are boring. And they make my head hurt.
ReplyDeleteIt is so very true that brits are smarter simply due to their accent. so very true. But they do also have cats who don't pee where they're supposed to & so do I. Because of this I love that you write about it; it makes me feel a little more normal & less of a crazy cat lady.
ReplyDeletewhat is a blog?
ReplyDelete"Oh! Well, lately I've been writing a lot about cat pee."
ReplyDeleteI love this. It's so my world sometimes. Did you ever see the Sex & The City episode where Carry talks about being "the fluff."
Love the fluff!
Had a very crappy going-through-divorce day, and hadn't even cracked a smile til now. Thanks :)
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