Grammar 101

Since I’ve decided to write this blog I’ve been noticing something rather interesting about the “blogosphere” in general. It seems to me that the quality of writing in a blog has absolutely nothing to do with its popularity … in fact it appears as though there might even be an inverse relationship between quality and popularity. This makes no sense to me. I mean why are so many people reading and responding to blogs that appear to be written by third graders? Is this the educational level that the majority of our population can relate to? I hope not … that’s not saying much about modern society…

Granted the small (almost non-existent) amount of comments I receive on my blog is what started my interest in this. It makes me wonder if anything that I am posting is even worth commenting on. Maybe I need to shorten my stories a bit and pander to the short attention span syndrome that modern society appears to be going through…? That, however, just doesn’t seem right to me. No … I’m going to continue writing complete and detailed stories – that’s just my style, I guess. I suppose I should just be happy that anybody’s even reading this stuff. This is mainly just a way that I can get the same story out to several interested people without having to re-hash the story again and again upon re-connecting with friends at different times. I kind of thought that some of these stories might be interesting enough for the general public to read but I guess reading about the silly adventures of a person that you don’t know isn’t very interesting…

The other thing that is now becoming very clear to me is that old saying about leading a horse to water – drinking is a decision that the horse needs to make on its own. I’ve informed pretty much all of my friends about this blog but usually discover that the blog has not been read by these friends when I actually am able to speak with them. This, of course, leads to the exact situation that I am trying to minimize with this blog and the stories need to be re-iterated verbally. I suppose this really isn’t that big of a deal. If all of my friends have read the blogs then that would merely limit the amount of new stores that I am able to tell – limiting my conversation options rather greatly. Ah, but this actually doesn’t worry me much as there is always a myriad of details left out of any story and these details can be discussed with people that read the blog. Not to mention that the number of stories that I haven’t yet written about is rather immense – things, in general, are always happening…

For instance, Anna (you remember Anna, right? – the one from Club Love in Athens…) is once again making a bit of a presence in my life. There was about a one month period where we basically stopped communicating and I just kind of figured that that was the end of that. I mean, after all, we knew each other for a grand total of maybe 10 hours over the period of two days. Is this enough time for two people to actually build a lasting relationship? The realist in me says “no” however there’s that hopeless romantic in me that screams “maybe”… just think of what a great “how we met” story that would be…

It was about a week ago when I received an SMS from Anna saying that she had been going through a really “fuck top” (you need to remember that she’s Russian and I think this is supposed to read “fucked up”) period in her life and that she was sorry for the long period of non-communication. I apparently made some kind of impact since she did get back in touch with me. We’ve been in contact since and she wants me to head down to Athens to visit her – she’s saying that Christmas is coming and that a visit from me would be the best present. Who knows? Maybe I will take a little trip… I could always fly down there for a night on the 16th of December, but I need to make sure that Anna can get the 16th and 17th off from work – I’m not about to head back down there and pay the outrageous prices required to be able to speak with her at her work… I’ll be calling her shortly to see what she thinks about this idea.

Now we get to experience one of the idiosyncrasies of written communication – time shifting… You see, quite a bit has happened since I wrote those paragraphs above – I headed back to the STD clinic to get my HIV test results (negative, thank god…), got myself a Döner Dürüm for lunch and called Anna. I actually had a rather interesting chat with Anna that changes things a little bit – she’s going to be letting me know tomorrow whether she might be able to leave Greece for a couple days around the holidays and head on up to Germany to spend some time with me. That would be cool! Unfortunately, for this to happen, the Greek government is going to have to give a guarantee that Anna can not only leave Greece for a couple of days but also be able to return afterwards. From my limited experience with Greek people, in general, I really don’t see this happening … all I can do is hope… Heck, I think that Anna actually taking the time and expense required to fly to Germany would put to rest most of the concerns that some of my friends have about Anna just playing me for monetary gain. I’m sure I’ll be letting you guys know what happens with this…

bis später,

Coriolis