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 LOCAL BLACKBELT CANDIDATE SUCKS AT BLOGGING more at 11

I had 3 weeks at the beginning of the year when I blogged until school started to ramp up, and deadlines started to pop up more frequently, and work started to get busy, and, and, and 

all these excuses to say I have missed a LOT of weekly blogs.

I have been trying to get back into the habit of blogging, but even when I first started, I hadn't published any of my posts on kwoon talk. Now because of how behind I have fallen I have extra aversion to publishing them; because its not only facing "everyone on the team is going to see what you are writing" but also "AND they're going to see that you only have a handful of posts written and know that you are behind" BUT I KNOW LOGICALLY THAT SINCE I HAVENT BEEN POSTING EVERYONE ALREADY KNOWS THAT I'M BEHIND SO IT SHOULDNT MATTER AT THIS POINT!

(at least that's what I've been telling myself these past few weeks, but here we are and I still haven't done it)

so to combat my aversion I figured why not just go to the extreme and point at the chink in my armor with a glowing neon sign: 

I SUCK AT JOURNALING! I FELL BEHIND! BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN I'VE FAILED AND THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT I CAN'T KEEP TRYING TO GET BETTER AT IT! 

I AM SCARED FOR PEOPLE TO READ MY POSTS OR TO PUBLISH STUFF THAT'S STUPID OR MAKES NO SENSE! 

SO THIS IS A CALL TO ARMS FOR EVERYONE ON THE TEAM TO PLEASE BUG ME ABOUT MY BLOGS! BUG ME IF I DON'T WRITE THEM AND LET ME KNOW IF THEY MAKE NO SENSE IF I DO!

I ALSO SUCK AT READING PEOPLES BLOGS AND BEING ACTIVE ON KWOON TALK IN GENERAL SO I'M TRYING TO GET BETTER AT THAT TOO!


THIS HAS BEEN A VERY AGGRESSIVE PSA BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE STUBBORN PART OF MY BRAIN, THANK YOU! 


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