Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Why oh why didn't I label?

Was I too cool to label my posts?  What was I thinking?  Now it's difficult to figure out what to label them as.  I don't really like labels.  I guess I want to organize.  Hmm.  How in depth do you go with this?  In my Quickbooks software it says to be very general to keep things simple.  I was fine with that in accounting...(I'm bad at accounting) but blogging is so different.  Even if there are 7 poem posts I don't know that I want to call them poems.  I started out just writing, not even knowing they were poems.  I am not entirely comfortable with writing poems.  Maybe this is an identity issue.  Maybe I'm freaking out at being labeled myself.  Take off my labels.  I don't like them.  They itch.  They cause redness.  They make me fall over ottomans.  If I start labeling my posts maybe they will fall over, too.  I wouldn't want that.  Maybe being more searchable isn't necessarily a good thing.  Maybe I should make people dig.  That's fun, like a corn maize.  It's that time of year.  Let's get lost in eachother's blogs.

2 comments:

TC said...

Rachel,

Nice echo of the Chet Baker standard, but you know what happened to him.

Let's Get Lost is a great admonition if at least one another person is willing.

But that gets back to your "will" issues.

Make people dig: now that's the spirit. Few will (there's that word again), but at least you've drawn the line.

As someone who's put up 500 poetry posts, all unlabeled, all lost, all I can say to you on this subject is: let's get lost.

Rachel said...

I accept the lost challenge. It's so much fun to find a way out. And yes, I would like to avoid falling to my death for no apparent reason. No one is that cool.