Writing Assignment

Dear One A Day,

Hello friend. I would begin by saying 'Hello Old Friend,' but I feel that would be a falsity. In fact, in the scheme of my 24 year old life, you are still a new friend having made a committment to writing to you every day just shy of five months ago on Wednesday May the 6th, 2009. Really, you are a new friend and yet I feel close to you. But today, I am owning that my committment to you has waivered in recent weeks.

It would almost be easier if you were a real-life person where the amount of unreturned phone calls or text messages were unrecorded and could slip past the scruntiness eye. But no, that was part of the cleverness of this committment: the blog itself would track when and how often I blogged. There is no fudging the deadlines online, where a computer controls your time stamps and the internet is your watchdog.

I do give myself some credit that the only time I dropped to 3 posts a week was during the final moments of my university coursework this summer, but those weeks of (7) during June and July just make my heart hum. And I want it back.

So, today, One A Day, I recommit to posting to you your dedicated daily dose of durges, your loving litany of lists, your horribly hokey haikus and especially your random rantings once within a 24 hour period, 7 days a week. Seven is our lucky number and Vegas is next, baby, you know it.

Love your faithful writer once more,
Erica