ni.vu.ni.connu: oversharing since 2002

My blog is 4 years old today. Beware, I’m getting sentimental.

Mon blogue a 4 ans aujourd’hui et faites gaffe, je deviens sentimentale (en anglais en plus).

On February 5th, 2002, I started to experiment with Blogger for an article I was writing about blogs. I wrote a shy, tentative post, unsure if I was going to pursue the activity. I got my first welcoming comment from a friendly French expat in Montreal who turned out to be my next door neighbor. A month later, I went to my first Yulblog meeting and, well, the rest is history (at least to me).

1254 posts later and I can’t seem to shut up. Blogging is addictive. I’ll admit it: it has taken too much of my time (though what « too much » means could be subject to debate). But blogging has also been pretty good to me so I think I’ll keep going.

I don’t have plans for the future of this blog and I don’t know how long it will last. I’m not quite sure where it’s going either. Frankly, I don’t think it’s really « going » anywhere, but that’s okay. It’s nice to do something in life that doesn’t have a point, at least not a clear one. It’s part self-expression, part self-promotion (I am a freelancer, after all) and part obsession. It’s also good for the writer’s muscles, keeping them warm and tight.

But for all it’s brought to my little writer’s obsessions, one of the most rewarding parts of blogging has been the people it has allowed me to meet, either in person or strictly online. I have met super smart, fun, different, well-read, geeky, sexy, curious, spiritual, big hearted, gorgeous people who are now part of my daily life and who have made this all worth it. I didn’t start blogging because I wanted to meet people. It just happened. We could call it a sweet form of collateral damage, one that changes your life in unexpected ways.

You’re not convinced that blogging can be so good to you? Just think: to celebrate my blog anniversary tonight, there’s this blogger I met who is going to cook me the best osso bucco you’ve ever tasted. Nice collateral damage, eh?

By Martine

Screenwriter / scénariste-conceptrice

15 comments

  2. Lol .. c’est comique car j’ai rencontr� ce blogger dans la petite italie en train de faire ses courses pour pouvoir te cuisiner ton osso buco.

    En m�me temps que je croisais Macha Grenon d’ailleurs.

    Je n’ai cependant pas os� l’accoster ne l’ayant que crois� qu’une seule fois dans ma vie.

    Le monde est d�finitivement petit!

  3. Congratulations, Martine! I am so glad you are a blogger because otherwise we might never have met. And I hope you won’t shut up anytime soon!

  4. tous mes bisoux dans le cou.
    Sc�nes de la vie ordinaire
    � Je vais dans cette direction
    � Ah oui moi aussi.

  9. Congratulations!!! I think the wonderful people you have encountered via this medium is quite a reflection of yourself. Here’s to many more years of oversharing.

  10. Congratulations! Here’s to another 4 years… when we’ll hopefully have direct neural links to our blogs and can publish by the power of thought alone… oh, and jetpacks, we definitely want jetpacks in the next 4 years.

    You inspired me to go back and work out exactly when I started. 27th Jan 2003 is the first proper post that I have in the current version, although Polytechnic has been around since 2000, but it was all hand coded and didn’t have one of these new-fangled blogamajigs.

    Who says these things need to « go » anywhere, the fact that they exist and evolve in a haphazard manner is fun enough don’t you think? *:)

  11. 4 ans! Ouf, �a inspire le respect!

    Fascinant le plaisir que nous procure l’�criture de ces tranches de vie et telle la c�l�bre cerise sur le non moins c�l�bre sunday, viennent les lecteurs…

    Continue � TE faire et � NOUS faire ce plaisir!

  12. Congratulations from south of the border. And bonne continuation.

    �douard

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