This is not a Sunday Round-Up

As the Sunday Round-Up is no more.

I’ll explain why this is so, but let me say now that there will be a monthly round-up type post from now on, on the last Sunday of every month. I’ll probably use the same headings as the Sunday Round-Up (SRU), but am considering making some amendments. I will take suggestions for it also.

Right, well last week I mentioned that I might be giving up the Sunday post, and asked for any opinions on this. Perhaps if readers had come out in their droves to beg me not to stop, it would have encouraged me, but alas, they did not. Two people responded, so Helena and Ciara, thank you lovelies

Anyhow, it’s becoming a real chore doing that post every week, and it can be difficult at times, as quite simply, sometimes I have a boring week. I’ve found myself forcing material lately.

When the Sunday post started, the “Anecdotes” and “Abstract distraction” items were events that I probably would have blogged about independently were it not for the Sunday post. But lately I found myself racking my brain for material for the SRU.

I can’t exactly talk about the savage nap I had on Thursday, but often that’s the only thing that comes to mind.

Also, when something good did happen to me, I’d want to blog about it, but would have to save it instead for the SRU. This diluted the quality of the blog, and that’s not something I liked. I like having single posts to look back on and be proud of, and the Sunday posts don’t really allow this. The SRU posts are generally just grouped under that one category. I can think of many posts that I’m proud of and like, but I couldn’t pick out a SRU that was particularly strong or whatever.

In recent weeks I could basically only manage the Sunday Round-Up, and then maybe some fairly crappy post midweek. This week I didn’t even get to do a midweek post. While I have much less hours in college than I did in school, my life is a lot more hectic and unpredictable than before.

I wake up on a Sunday and think, “OK, breakfast, then to do my homework and study” or whatever the task for the day is. Then it dawns on me - the blog post. And that’s nearly two hours gone. With a monthly post I can have more time to think about the post, work on it, and be happy with it.

With normal posts, if I’m not happy I won’t publish it. With the Sunday post there isn’t time for that usually, as I tend to only get to start it on the Sunday morning itself. Publishing something I’m not happy with is something I hate doing.

I’ll probably blog most Sundays anyway, as it’s a handy day for blogging, but I won’t be struggling to fill headings and categories and racking my brain.

I’m pleased that I at least got 17 Sunday Round-Ups done. That’s four months or so. Not bad going at all. Have a look at the competitions effort, a measly three posts they managed. For shame, Aaron

So, RIP SRU.

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