Favorite Posts: My Moment of Ego (sorry!)

While I relize it is probably rather egotistical and self-aggrandizing to do this after not even thirty posts, I have decided to add a "Favorite Posts" list in the sidebar of the blog. Part of the reason is that I have heard more and more about people from the "real" world (as opposed to the blog one) Google-ing me, finding the blog, and then using it, which the best of intentions, to formulate opinions about my (academic) life. And this, frankly, kind of sucks, especially since I feel the quality of the blog posts have been going down as of late. This also comes at a time during which I am simultaneously leaving four years of private school for public high school and submitting more and more things for publication (oh, yeah, I do that...), knowing full well that the blog can potentially be discovered by both submission-readers and high school administrators. So I want to put what I think is my best work out front.

Another part of it is personal. I have come to realize (or at least would like to hope) that more people are finding the blog as a result of my increased traffic on other blogs. I also realize that many of these people will undoubtedly never see some of my earlier posts, which I tend to really like. (And, you'll notice, several of the indicated "favorite posts" are early posts, and have little or no comments. hmm...)

So those are the reasons for this embarrassing moment of egotistical behavior. I hope they made it easier to stomach this self-aggrandizement! (Oh, and one more thing, this post on the death penalty, while not one that I particularly like, has gotten the most positive response in the "real" world. Just thought I'd mention it.)

Now I'm done. Promise.