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A whimper, not a bang
The charming flourishes and clever anecdotes aren't as charming or clever as she thinks they are and it becomes distracting.
Good writers are able to write about themselves without being narcissistic...it's tedious to those who don't live in that world.
This is a good explanation of why this article strikes most of us as an example of bad writing. The author is too wrapped up in herself to make her naiveté and ineptitude engaging or humorous, and it is precisely on this level that the piece fails. It annoys the hell out of the reader to slog through three pages hoping there is going to be some kind of payoff, but it ends with a whimper, not a bang...
Sorry...meh...I couldn't resist ending on a bad joke.