So I’m sort of awake still and figure I can probably redux things OK.
The Good
-raising $270 (at this point) for International Justice Mission
-getting to hang out with lovely people again who I unfortunately only get to see during the ‘thon
-meeting awesome people like Lauren (one of my monitees — I always wind up meeting at least one really excellent person every year and she’s this year’s person)
-my awesome husband Jon bringing me Subway for lunch
-cats hanging out with me
-dancing the Timewarp at 3 a.m.
-my cheerleaders
-my monitor team: the bSpies who posted lots of cat macros
-getting to go to sleep right after I finished (and not having tons of phone calls to wake me up)
-being able to help out with Potterthon
The Bad
-the flippin’ heat
-the smoke outside which means that I can’t open windows to air out my study
-some of my monitored sites breaking my browser
-feeling completely punch drunk right now
-the nastily uncomfortable chair that is my computer chair
What I’ll Do Differently Next Year
-different charity (I love IJM to pieces but I switch charities every year)
-different computer chair!!!
-not be part of multiple group weblogs (it was fun but really hard when I had multiple entries due) or if I am, I’ll have entries going in on each site and saved until they have to be posted
-put my monitored sites into a bookmark group so that I can go surf and hang out without having to deal with the surfing frame
-have a cooler up here with cold drinks so that I don’t have to walk down two floors to the kitchen (then again… it was good exercise)
-print out my schedule so I don’t have to have MS Excel open
-create my Napster playlist and find some way of saving it so I don’t have to re-create it if my Napster freezes
-have a list of artists I want to check out so I have new music during the ‘thon
-keep mIRC open more so I can participate in more of the chat (oh yes… I’ll also have instructions to give my monitees on how to get in if they ask)
I will definitely participate again and I’ll monitor again as well.Â? (Monitoring means that I get to hang out with a group of people and be a cheerleader and find out about new and wonderful sites and people.)
Lauren was one of your monitees! I saw a comment from her on your blogathon blog and wondered how the two of you knew each other!
Lauren and I have known each other for years now.
It’s a small world after all…
Yep, I’ve known Jarred for ages. 😉 Crazy.
Aww.. You are so awesome!
I’m intending to keep my blog going and everything, but I’m looking to purchase a domain soon.. so I have no idea where I will end up, but I will be sure to keep you updated. I might be switching over to WordPress from blogspot, because it seems to work better for what I want. What do you like about it?
Right now though, I’m not going anywhere. 😉
I am so excited that you did IJM though. I haven’t met anyone that has ever heard of it other than me. lol. I was actually a political science major in college and wanted to really get involved with them, but well, that didn’t happen. lol (i havent finished college yet, for one.)
I think next year, I want to do a diabetes organisation.. a research oriented one. There is a lot of diabetes in my family.
I would maintain that most bloggers are separated by much less than 6 degrees of separation. 🙂 Jarred is a friend of Pisco who was one of my manatees (what the monitors are calling our monitored sites) last year. Pisco is a friend of Dreama who I met through the Blogathon in 2005.
Actually, someone blogged for IJM 3 years ago. I know about it from being at Urbana 2000 and hearing Gary Haugen speak. (I’m sure that you’ve heard of Urbana, having studied at Messiah College.)
As for domain stuff, let me know if you have questions. I’ve had this domain for about 2 years now and my other domain (peacefulwaters.org) for 7. My Blogathon site was on Peacefulwaters.Org for the first two years and I stuck it over on WordPress.Com this year so that I had some separation from my regular domains for it. (Having a husband as a pastor means that I have to be pretty circumspect about my blogging.) I’ve used just about every content management system there is and I like WordPress the best — I’ve just had really good luck with it.