bloggy stats and purpose

I checked my web stats yesterday. A couple years back, I went from about 225 unique visitors a day to somewhere in the 300s. Last year I jumped to about 600, the start of this year I was looking at 800. Somewhere between January and March or 2006, my stats have jumped to 1,400 unique visitors a day. When I saw this, I immediately assumed that there must be some foul play involved. I added this php script to my paintings pages so people can’t steal my bandwidth by posting my paintings on their sites without asking. This happens to me a lot and I suppose I would feel flattered if they bothered to post my name or a link to my site, but no, there’s never any mention of me. But now that I’ve let the new statistic settle in, I think I was just overreacting. There has been a lot going on in the past few months so yeah, maybe I do have more readers. No one ever leaves comments, so I don’t feel like I have that many readers, but I suppose I do. So hi!

Last night we saw The Don’ts at Edinburough Castle. (Amy, Sorry I didn’t get to talk to you last night) What a fun night. The band was great, and everyone was dancing. The beer was flowing, my friend Heather was there, it was an all around fantastic night. I think maybe that last shot of Fornetto (sp?) was a bad idea but I’m recovering pretty well and the bonding ritual that accompanied the fornetto drinking was well worth today’s headache.

Today on our way to the Pork Store I found a copy of Julie and Julia I was very excited (despite my headache) because I’ve been wanting to read it. Julie is a woman, around my age who decided one day to cook every single recipe in the Mastering the Art of French Cooking, a cookbook by Julia Child. She wrote about it daily on a blog. Her blog is here. I used the read her blog pretty regularly. Anyway, the book is very entertaining. I should be studying or reading one of the 15+ textbooks I have this semester but I can’t put this book down.

I’ve been thinking about blogs and themes a lot, especially after finding this book and seeing my stats yesterday. My blog sort of has a theme, but it’s such a mixture of mush, a melange of my life. Sometimes I think I should focus it more towards art and art making but then it wouldn’t be the same beast. I like my beast. Limiting it to just art would take some of the spark out of it for me. So I will continue to talk about my bowel movements and what I ate for dinner. Stats be damned.

Today I have an artist reception and I’m not even showered. I need to get my act together. The reception started 21 minutes ago!