(cross-posted at Daily Kos)
I’m not a very good blogger, and I don’t know all that much.
If you want to read top-notch material in the blogosphere, there are other writers who will far outdo anything I ever write. Meteor Blades, Booman, Chris Bowers, Kid Oakland, and many others – these are the folks who know politics and write about it in an unmatched fashion. They’re great people, some of whom I’ve had the privilege to meet, and I hope to meet many more in the future.
This isn’t a GBCW diary of the memorable type. In fact, this isn’t really a GBCW diary at all. But sometimes, we have to face reality. I’m taking 6 classes this upcoming semester, including 2 of the hardest courses in the Wharton School (where I currently attend, as my profile notes). I also will have additional obligations to fulfill with the Penn College Democrats and at the student-run bank that I work at. Despite all of this, I’m going to do my best to volunteer at much time as humanly possible to congressional candidate Patrick Murphy. I may even show up for some of the Drinking Liberally sessions in Philadelphia, even though it’s a weekday and technically, I’m not old enough to drink yet.
Who knows, though. At the beginning of the summer, I didn’t think I’d have the time to blog much, if at all, because of my summer internship at a hedge fund. And yet, three months later, I’ve managed to write a little something every day. Some of it’s been utter crap. Others have been barely noticed at all. When I was liveblogging at Ned Lamont’s victory party, I joked to Chris Bowers that I needed to find another compelling race to follow – it’s about the only thing I wrote that got much attention. Nevertheless, one learns a lot through blogging. I’ll be dead honest – I do not claim to be an ‘expert’ on many of the subjects I blog on. Instead, I usually find a policy issue, a topic, or a race that interests me, and I do the necessary research to weave a blog entry together that tries to tell some kind of story. In the end, blogging is about having a conversation with people, and I’ve had many fantastic ones throughout the summer.
I’ve been lucky enough to be fairly active in the community-based blogosphere (e.g. sites that use Scoop or SoapBlox). It’s been a pleasure chatting with many people, whether it be AndiF and Family Man at Booman Tribune in the early mornings of June and July, or whether it’s been needling Elise at dKos…well, for no good reason, really, except to get a good laugh or three. 🙂 It’s been a real pleasure getting to know many of you better, particularly those around my age who have joined the College Kossacks Facebook group.
In closing, I’ll do my best to post as regularly as school allows me to. I’ll be doing my little gig over at Deny My Freedom with Yoss and MadCasey. To everyone who’s read my stuff, crappy, unpopular, or otherwise, thanks a lot. It’s been a good time.