I'm starting to think about making some changes to my blog. The first change will be to move it to a new server. Presumably I'll do that soon, and hopefully there won't be much down time during the transition. But watch this space, because one never knows...
Beyond that, at some point it will be time to retire this blog and begin another. In a sense the change is just a formality; much of the new blog will be a lot like the old. So why the change? Well, for one, it will give me a chance to update the look and feel a bit. I like the basic simplicity of this one, but I might like to change the fonts and accent colors and such.
The bigger reason is because I think it's getting to be time to give the blog a new focus. At some point this story will have been told; I will have become a lawyer. To an extent, I want to claim that ethos. I mean, realistically, whom are you going to take more seriously - a law student, or a lawyer? I want to be able to state my ideas with more authority than I think I can under the current framework.
But the other reason is that the focus of a blog serves as a filter for posts. I include in this version, for instance, a lot more moments of personal analysis - particularly at low points - than I necessarily wish to as a blogging professional. But because the main focus of this blog is to tell the story of the transition from layperson to lawyer, those insights are appropriate and necessary to telling that story honestly. So I need to find a new story to tell, a new focus, in order to be able to find a new filter.
For those of you who know and love to read about my general, non-lawyerly exploits, however, don't worry - I'm still going to be me. And I'm still going to enjoy doing and writing about these things. Maybe it will compromise my ethos somewhat and skew my cheese ratio, but I think that's a risk I'm willing to take. If I expect people to read my serious ideas I need to be engaging enough to keep them reading during the intervals (and there will be intervals since I can't manage a lifestyle so singularly focused on the serious). I need readers to care enough about what I have to say in order to care enough about what I have to say...