The Last Meta-Blog

    Maybe it's because I'm so sentimental, but I can't help noticing that this is the very last meta-blog post we'll have to write. Unless you were held back a year...in which case I'm very sorry. Looking back on the 40 or so posts I've published this year, I am proud of my work. Other than my gratitude journal, (in which I write one thing every night about something I'm grateful for- I highly recommend it), this is the only consistent writing I've done all year. Since I am involved in theater, I am used to expressing myself through someone that is not myself, so I am grateful (gratitutde journal anyone??) that I have found a way to be comfortable expressing myself through my very own words and thoughts. Looking at my first blog post, Titanic Once Again, I remember being quite uncomfortable as I wrote that. I specifically remember thinking, "Do I actually care about this?" as I wrote it. Now, I don't write it unless I care. For example, I feel so passionate about the amazing weather of summer finally arriving that I just had to blog about it in my latest post, SUMMER. I have become much more carefree within the topics I have written about, and even though they are not always hard-hitting journalism pieces that I'm extremely proud of, as Kristen said in her last meta-blog post, blogging about Kate Middleton and the world's hottest pepper is "not necessarily a bad thing." I hope readers have come away from my blog posts having learned something new or realized that there was another way of looking at a topic. That has been my goal all along. And maybe I won't be blogging 4 posts per month next year as I tried to stick to this year, but I think it's safe to say that I will be returning to this blog in the fall. Why not this summer, you may ask? I'll be too busy at the beach.

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