2026-08-31
I've accidentally participated in Blaugust, which seems to have originated in 20141. I heard about it on Mastodon this year, and had coincidentally started my website and blog in late July.
I've never been much of a writer or a storyteller. I got terrible grades on essays in school. These blogs have mostly been stream-of-consciousness and I have no idea how coherent they would be to the outside workd.
The most interesting part is that some of the deeper topics I've written about sank in deeper than had they remained thoughts. Writing something down feels like it should do nothing, but ultimately the effects are felt in the future.
I'm definitely burned out from the past month of trying to blog and learn something daily. I want to continue updating this daily beyond this month but I definitely need to deal with the burnout and fading discipline to make something more than throwaway half-efforts.
Cheers to what might become a new tradition, or might be the first and only time I participate in Blaugust! I might have completely forgotten about this site by this time next year, though I hate to think about the state of my Digital Garden were it to be forgotten.