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You are here: Home / Personal / topics / linkylove / NaBloPoMo Round-Up #3: Xs, Ys, Zs, & Ds

NaBloPoMo Round-Up #3: Xs, Ys, Zs, & Ds

November 15, 2006 by krisis

Between my NaBloPoMo participation, recent half-all-nighters working on CK’s WordPress conversion, an aggresive social schedule (tonight: Cheap Trick / Ok Go), and – oh yeah – my full time communications job, i haven’t lived anything resembling a life in my own home for almost a week. I don’t have any food, i have no clean socks, and after i pull tonight’s half-nighter of WordPress fixin’ i should be able to post a camera pic of the disaster area that is my office/recording-studio.

All that is just a long way of saying i have so much stuff i should be doing rather than this, but i find myself doing this anyway because i have 23 more letters worth of NaBloPoMo left to review in only 15 days. Here we go.

I decided to pull a few late-alphabet letters into the mix, since those blogs are probably benefiting less from reviewers and traffic from NaBloPoMo central. There are only 31 XYZ bloggers, who were maintaining a 75% participation rate when i read through them a few days ago.

I’ve already already found a favorite XYZ blogger in the previously linked You’re Doing It Wrong, who graced me with a lovely email exchange over the weekend. However, i also thouroughly enjoyed You Can’t Make this Stuff Up, who told a story about being young but still the oldest person at a concert, an experience i seem to relive at least once a month. Where for art all the hip oldsters? I was also especially fond of the clean, easy to read layout at Zanshin.

Other notable XYZers included Yarn Porn, a mom whose son knits. I love parents who are completely over the whole silly concept of gender-based activities for children. That’s how we wind up with so many meat-headed adult men and wilty grown woman. More power to her. I also love finding out about processes whose workings i don’t understand, so i enjoyed Yet Another Heather‘s treatise on why movie theatres are disgusting.

X Facta had a back-to-back pair of interesting posts, one about some sort of construction (an elaborate log cabin?) and then about the unique challenges of working with the disabled. Finally, Yoga Gumbo is NaBloPoMoing and NaNoWriMoing, and excerpts a quote that i’ve found to be very true in my personal life from a Washington Post article on NaNoWriMo:

“A lot of people discover the month they’re writing their novel that they have more time for everything else in their life than they did before,” Baty says. “Once you decide to really prioritize something, whether that’s novel writing or learning a foreign language, you tend to cut out the superfluous bits.”

The quote jives with my whole theory of personal betterment, which i’ll lay on the line in a post coming REALLY SOON. But, first, the Ds.

There were 96 Ds to read, primarily made up of 46% from BlogSpot and 16% from WordPress (yes, my OCD knows no bounds). Of the Ds, 73% have kept up daily. I wonder if this ~25% dropout rate for the first half of NaBloPoMo is typical of all letters, and if it’s still declining?

One of the failed NaBloPoMo blogs is actually pretty notable – Dad Daily Blog is working on a sort of “MySpace for Dads,” which was a nice respite from all the mommy-blogging. He also offers an informative post on how home aquariums have changed from the purple-graveled affairs of our youth.

On the whole I enjoyed a lot of the Ds, but a few deserve special attention. Debbie Millman is a communications-oriented blogger who posts videos and media-responses. Derivative of Witty turns in a fascinating post on a new series of cow mutilations. Defying Labels, Gravity, and Sleep Deprivation is another Blogger/Marathoner, and she offers a very vivid description of her recent marathon experience.

Doctor Anonymous is an honest-to-goodness doctor blogging primarily on medicine-related topics (quite well, too) – where does he find the time!? He’ll be hosting the next virtual “Grand Rounds” of the best recent medical-blog writing.

In the mommy-blog category, Letters to Lucy is in the form of a mom’s daily notes to her daughter, which reminded me of an old favorite – the now defunct Henry’s Diary. Diary of a Crazed Mommy isn’t afraid to be a little mean to her kids when the situation warrants it.

And, finally, Dante’s Inferno w/Children posts a funny waiting room story that reminded me of Garden State, and generally writes compellingly about her son – who is rated on the autistic spectrum. Quite a few people in my professional life are also experiencing this with their children, and it was refreshing to have a window into someone’s personal experiences.

Next up are the 60 Es as well as the combined 44 Us and Vs.

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  1. marit says

    November 15, 2006 at 9:58 pm

    Holy links Batman! That must have taken you forever. Anyhoo…thanks for the “shoot oot” as they say in Canada.

  2. Wendy says

    November 15, 2006 at 10:32 pm

    Thanks for visiting and linking. And uber-thanks for the kind words about parenting, it means more than I can say.

  3. Liesel Elliott says

    November 16, 2006 at 9:42 pm

    Thanks for stopping by. Those of us in the Inferno enjoy visitors. I really like the layout of your site. Especially the background.

  4. debbie millman says

    November 16, 2006 at 10:37 pm

    thank you!

  5. laurie says

    November 16, 2006 at 11:05 pm

    Second what Marit said up there – that’s a mega post if I ever saw one…Enjoying your posts…you’re one of my favorite finds from NaBlo so far. I’m liking the new design as well!

  6. rashenbo says

    November 17, 2006 at 1:41 pm

    Excellent Links!

  7. Sock Girl says

    November 17, 2006 at 9:26 pm

    That must have taken a very long time! Great blog!

  8. krisis says

    November 17, 2006 at 9:42 pm

    I’m super-happy that you are all enjoying my DXYZ breakdown, and I hope you took the time to check out some of the blogs therein!

    It did indeed take a long time, and i’m not even into the lengthier letters yet! However, the real challenge isn’t so much the time spent reading, but balancing this blog-intake with my own-blog output, especially since it takes quite a while to rehearse, record, and upload a new Trio of songs, and i hope to complete eight more by the end of the month.

    I’m actually working on the EUV edition right now; i’ve got to keep up a pretty aggressive reading schedule if i hope to finish the alphabet before the end of NaBloPoMo.

  9. Doctor Anonymous says

    November 23, 2006 at 5:40 pm

    Thanks so much for mentioning my blog. I appreciate it! I invite you and your readers to check out Grand Rounds on my blog. Grand Rounds is the best that the medical blogosphere has to offer this week.

  10. Doctor Anonymous says

    November 23, 2006 at 5:42 pm

    Sorry, I posted too early. I also wanted to say that I’ve been enjoying your blog and I’ll be adding you to my blogroll. Thanks!

  11. Kel says

    November 26, 2006 at 5:08 pm

    thanx for hitting the last letters before the end of nablopomo, X Facta appreciates your thoughtfulness :)

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