So, despite only having done a couple of posts, I have so far found that returning to the practice is helpful.

Yesterday’s post about the treadmill run helped me take a few random impressions that flashed through my head while I was in the locker room at the gym and turn them into thoughts, words, conclusions. Otherwise they’d have just dropped half-formed to the bottom of my mind to be cleaned out later (maybe in sleep?). Maybe they’ll be useful or entertaining for someone else. Maybe they won’t.

Either way, it made my mind feel stronger and less cluttered.

Given the ratio of time spent on the initial impression to the time spent on writing out the blog post to flesh out the thought, I am not going to be able to blog everything. (Nor would I want to). But I think as I get back in the habit, I will first of all get faster at it, and second, get a better sense of what is most blog-worthy and what can just be dropped. It just helps me process my daily experience in a way that just journaling for myself doesn’t.

What I choose to post and leave off of Facebook is another story, perhaps something I’ll flesh out in another post. For now, at least while I’m not getting feedback on these posts, this is all for an audience of me.

It’s an experiment. More entries in my lab notebook will follow.