Why Do You Blog Meme

Mzmazzola, who is an English teacher, has her AP Literature and Composition students working on their seniror project. One of her own projects is about blogging, and she asks some questions which I have decided to answer here as a blog post. Check it out yourself on the State of Denmark blog.

1. How long have you been blogging? Since 2006
2. Why did you start blogging? I wanted to review and talk about books.
3. What have you found to be the benefits of blogging? I have met many great bloggers.
4. How many times a week do you post an entry? That varies a great deal. Sometimes only once, sometimes every day. But usually a post or two a week.
5. How many different blogs do you read on a regular basis? Many!
6. Do you comment on other people’s blogs? Yes, I try to comment on every blog I visit.
7. Do you keep track of how many visitors you have? Is so, are you satisfied with your numbers? I wish I knew how to keep track, but I have no idea.
8. Do you ever regret a post that you wrote? No, not really. My blogs are not controversial.
9. Do you think your audience has a true sense of who you are based on your blog? I hope so, even though I rarely blog about personal things. But through comments and the odd personal info here and there, I hope so.
10. Do you blog under your real name? Yes, but not under my last name. I am not blogging anonymously though.
11. Are there topics that you would never blog about? I don't think so. But I try to keep my blog as close as possible to the main subject of the blog.
12. What is the theme/topic of your blog? Books, literature and book related subjects.
13. Do you have more than one blog? If so, why? I am Danish, so I also blog about books in English. I am also an Egyptologist and blog about Ancient Egypt in Danish, and have recently begun blogging about Egyptology in English as well.

These Books Were Made For Walking

Strumpet from Strumpet's Life has a brand new meme, and she is tagging all of us. I am at least a week late with this, as Strumpet's thought is, that this will be a thing for every third Wednesday.

The meme is called These Books Were Made For Walking and the first week's theme is:

what book do you most associate with the beach and why?

Beach reading to me is almost always without exception something light. It can be a good, fast paced thriller, a chick lit, a vampire-fantasy...well, almost anything which is not a classic or meatier contemporary literature. While I like reading both classics and contemporary, when I am on the beach I want it light. Last time I was on the beach was August 2008, where I was in Sharm el-Sheikh on the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. I brought three books with me for a week's stay and finished them all. One of those books was Grievous Angel by Jane Hill, which I have reviewed here.

I think this is a fun meme and I look forward to more!

The image is from my own flickr photostream and it is from Dahab, also on the Sinai Peninsula. You can see my Sinai-set here.

How do you sleep meme :o)

Julia from A Piece of My Mind tagged me in this little fun meme "how do you sleep".

1. How long do you sleep each night? That depends. Like Julia I am not good at going to bed early, although I try to do just that when I am getting up early the next day. I'd say I sleep between 5 and 8 hours a night.

2. Do you fall asleep easily? Yes, I do that. Because when I am in bed, I am for the most time rather sleepy. Otherwise I wouldn't be in bed.

3. Do you fall asleep at times not in your bed? Rarely. I sometimes snooze a bit on the couch, but that is rare. Once every other month or so. But if I am travelling by train or plane, I try to snooze there as well to pass time.

4. Do you listen to music or white noise to sleep? Nope.

5. Do you sleep through the night or get up a couple of times? I usually sleep through the night every night. Excessive amounts of tea or mineral water before bed makes me wake up all through the night, though, so I try to avoid that before bedtime.

6. Do you have trouble sleeping away from your own bed? Naw. Not really.

7. Do you need an alarmclock to get up? Yes, most definitely.

8. Do you ever take medication to help you sleep? Never

9. Do you/have you slept with pets? Oh yes, grew up with dogs and had them in the bed all the time. We haven't got any pets these days though.

The image of the beds above is one of my own pics from a vacation about two years ago. There is no way I will haunt any of you with an image of the state of my own bedroom ;o) LOL.