Editorial #7 I Knew You’d Come Crawling Back
Saturday, June 30th, 2007
I have no commitment. That’s exactly what it is. I come and go; tread mud into the house; leave salacious relics of previous seedy liaisons on the coffee table; never feed the dog.
But I always come back. Rarely a day goes by when I haven’t logged into Typepad and checked for any new comments, or momentary festered over my lack of updating, formulating countless good-intentioned check lists on what I should review next.
There’s a simple answer: I’m a creature of warped, inconsistent habit. I post in small, intense bursts; thinking every time that yeah, I can keep this up. One flashy light or shiny thing later and it’s been a month of nothing and a mounting backlog.
I feel bad, though. The fact that maybe four of these editorials have been apologies for my lack of activity is suggestive of my guilt, and it’s founded in a genuine enjoyment of writing for the site. I’m not entirely sure what the resolution is, however. Personally I’m okay with spotty activity, but in something as community-driven as anime blogging it’s not as satisfying to just act on impulse. I know as a reader how easy it is to forget about a site you love when nothing happens on it for a protracted amount of time. Not to suggest I have anything like that, but it’s less likely to even happen when there’s no consistency.
Anyhow, that’s my long-winded apology out the way. Now let’s systemically deconstruct my current watchings in the swiftest way possible.