Yay! A Small Victory for this Small Blog

Although I probably should be working on my lesson plan that is due Friday, I am going to break my schedule meaningfully here. This is because something very cool has happened and I MUST write about it. Since May, I’ve had a blog that’s essentially composed entirely of revised freewrites. I try to post once per week on Fridays, and I’ve been somewhat successful. College has made it more difficult to stay consistent, but today I posted two posts, because I haven’t been able to for a while. A couple weeks before, I learned how to share the posts on Google+, which while I know it is a sad social media thing, but it’s better than nothing. So I shared the post, ‘The Iliad: Will it Join My Home Library?’ and figured out how to add pictures and added a creative commons picture of an ancient copy of the Iliad. Between the two posts I have gotten 16 views alone today!

Despite the fact that my sister’s youtube channel’s least watched video about a middle grade book series about cats has 34 views, more than twice what those two posts got combined, I am still very excite. Because when your all time view count is 82 (including those 16), you are very excited about a 24% increase.* Also I looked at my statistics and this past month my ‘audience’ (if you can call 82 total views an audience) went international! Originally, here is where I had the word ‘ah’ followed by 36 more h’s, but that seemed obnoxious. So I will just add an over excited picture to the post instead. I’m thinking balloons and confetti, or maybe fireworks. You already know the answer though, because I will have picked it by the time this is posted.

Who outside of the United States is reading my posts? Or at least accidentally clicking on them, when they are searching for more…prominent, well-written, entertaining articles? Evidently, it’s five people from Germany, one from Singapore, one from Japan, one from Russia, and one from Malaysia. Not only do I have an international audience, I have a multi-continental audience! If I was still twelve, I would be dancing ‘like an Egyptian’ as per the song back and forth triumphantly.

So anyone reading or accidentally clicking on this join me in celebration for my first post to go over 10 views! What’s that saying? ‘Appreciate the little things’ or something like that. I’m not sure, but I don’t care. Welcome new readers and accidental-clickers!

*I think I did that math correctly. However, feel free to tell me how wrong I am in the comments.

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Image Credit: Matt Janicki from Evanston, IL, USA used under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License