Those Were the Blogs of Our Lives

Wow. To echo what I said in my first blog from the beginning of the school year, "You have NO idea what it took to get here!" The process that went into making my blogs is fascinating in retrospect, seeing how I worked whatever was influencing me at the time into my blog. I doubt anyone remembers much about my personal development across the year, but I can see clearly stages of my own development worked into individual blogs. For example, I stated that I had a closet full of legos in my second blog about Boo Radley, very similar to something I talked about much at the beginning of the year.

I can also see how I worked things that I experienced in middle school into my posts. The blog about Scout mentions how I wrote a speech about NCLB. Something which was probably still pretty recent in my mind at the time. Something that keeps coming up over and over again is how I read War and Peace though. It seems every other blog I wrote had something about how I compared The Count of Monte Cristo with War and Peace, or Great Expectations with War and Peace. its a shame I used Bon Jovi instead of War and Peace for Romeo and Juliet.

It also illustrates the personality I tried to put into my blog. Like that time I talked about crushing tiny rebellions in my titanium fist in the "The skill I've learned" blog. Though I must be honest, that blog feels in retrospect like I was praising my knowledge of TvTropes foremost. Also, there's that "Formal vs. informal diction" post, which really conveys a lot of information about myself. It also actually contained deep information that makes perfect sense if you have the same background as I do. Of course, lets face it, I don't think there's anyone who would possibly be reading this blog who would say that truly.

Indeed, I think the culmination of this whole blog assignment was to express me and my personality. This blog represents a chunk of me in the form of writing. Its more than a bunch of hurried and rushed assignments written for school, its something I poured my figurative soul into to create a gigantic screaming beast which cry's, "I, am, AARON!" There were many good times to be had across the year, and I enjoyed the writing of many a blog post before, trying to inscribe a deeper bit of myself into it. Surprisingly, I haven't made a single Queen reference yet this entire blog, so I must say that the song lyrics which describe this project and my feeling for it are put perfectly here,

"Those were the days of our lives
When bad things in life were so few
Those days are all gone now, but one thing is true,
When I look, and I find,
I still love you."

Oh yes, I forgot one more element of this blog: Its over. This is the last time I will have to make a deadline at such a ridiculous last moment that the rate of my fingers typing is so fast that I swear I see barely a blur. The last time I'll wake up at 11:37 the night it's due thinking, "Oh, CARP!" It'll be swell, but as they say, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

-Aaron