blogging about the bloggable (and the unbloggable)

Right now I am sitting in my favorite window seat at my favorite coffeeplace, watching people out the window. I love Bardstown Road, especially this part of it, close to the intersection of Eastern Parkway. There is such an interesting cross section of Louisville life to be seen here. So far I have seen: gay daddies pushing a baby in a stroller, a hipster straight couple pushing a baby in a stroller, a goth-looking girl who I seem to see around these parts a lot, a long-haired dude wearing a t-shirt reading “Normal People Scare Me,” and a mail carrier delivering mail. There are people working in the garden at the church across the street. They are doing mysterious things with big clippery implements, a plastic container with a hose attached to the top, and a wheelbarrow. There is a new restaurant next door, a Persian place, and someone just came out and set up the big sandwich board sign announcing today’s special: celery beef stew.

Sometimes I do things, or see things, or think about things, or have feelings about things that I do not blog about. This is because they are complicated and private. It this were a pseudonymous or anonymous blog, I would likely feel more comfortable blogging about those things. But this is not that kind of blog. So, instead, I offer some bloggable thoughts I’m thinking while watching the world outside the window. A presentation I’m working on for a conference this fall. What celery beef stew might taste like. (It sounds gross.) Wondering when the new season of The Office will start. How John Edwards is an effing toolshed. What Emily might have for lunch today. Whether I should call my friend who lives around the corner from this coffeeshop to see if she wants to drink coffee with me. Getting the oil changed in my car.

Also: Geography lessons. Wallace Stevens. And certain other things that will remain private, complicated, and unbloggable.