I've believed this for a long time in an intellectual sort of way. However, it's hard to pour time into something like a blog when it feels like dumping one's ideas into the digital void. I decided recently to write anyway and, because it doesn't matter if anyone reads it, I try not to look at my usage statistics.
I decided to look at them today. (I was having some serious blank page issues) So, that I have readers in the U.S. is not surprising. I know for a fact that my dad reads every day (Hi Dad!), my husband reads most days, if not every day (love you honey), and I have a few coworkers that read from time to time (Yo, what up my work-peeps.) It's even possible a couple of my students have found my blog, I don't keep it a secret (remember to do the Steinbeck reading tonight, there will be a quiz :-P). Because my mother is an interesting topic of conversation, I have at least one regular reader in Finland (Hi Mummy) and I think some of her friends/students may check in now and then (Hey Jani, how's the book biz?). And that's about it. Or so I thought.
I'm getting pings in Mexico and Poland. Hi guys, whoever you are. I don't know people in either of these countries. Now, probably they just tripped across my blog as a result of a random search.
Still, it's kinda cool.
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