Avoid contact with eyes

As a teacher of rhetoric, it's part of my job to understand the concept of audience awareness. One of the things that I understand about that concept is that it can occasionally be crippling or stifling.

For example, I know for a fact that I have at least three blog readers. Unfortunately, those three blog readers don't necessarily have the same interests. This problem is exacerbated when we consider my interests, which we should because I'm the one writing these things.

If this blog were truly a personal blog, in the same vein as a personal journal or diary, I would just write about whatever I was interested in. But, since it's at least a four-person endeavor and, again, I'm aware of this fact, I occasionally ignore topics of interest to me out of kindness to my tried-and-true readers.

I can talk to myself at least as easily as I could write to myself, so I usually take that route when those topics arise.

All that to say that if I were writing for myself right now, I would almost certainly be writing about Dragon Age: Origins, which I've been playing on the reg for about two weeks now. However, since none of my known audience has much interest in that topic, I have an almost palpable desire to avoid it in this blog.

Subsequently, I don't have much to write.

Quote of the Week:

Notice the unfortunate line spacing and inconsistent understanding of complex adjectives:

"MACHINE WASH WARM

GENTLE CYCLE

WITH LIKE COLORS

ONLY NON-CHLORINE

BLEACH WHEN NEEDED

TUMBLE DRY LOW

AVOID CONTACT

WITH SKIN

TREATMENT PRODUCTS"

-My towel (emphasis mine)