I Guess I'll Take a Crack At Blogging

I think the title is pretty self-explanatory. I am going to take a stab at blogging. Like, with actual updates. I will ramble and maybe tell you about my family or college or what I ate for breakfast, and you can leave mean comments. Or nice ones, if you like.

In the interest of full disclosure, I must admit: this is not my first blog. I had one a while ago that I haven't updated in a long time and that I never showed anyone. It was full of angst and exclamation points and capital letters, and I used the word totally at least 4 times in every post. I occasionally go look at it when I'm feeling blue-ish, because the last post was about a day that turned out to be one of the happiest of my life so far, and all the stuff leading up to that last post neatly captures a part of my life that I'd like to remember, if only to remind myself of things that I will NEVER DO AGAIN. But it didn't last, because blogging felt too much like a commitment. And I have total commitment issues. Also, I'm lazy. And that last post just seemed too good to replace with yet another post about how much I hated my mom. So I stopped updating.

A little while after I gave up on that blog, I discovered Twitter, and until now, that has fulfilled all my self-expression needs. But every so often, I have something to say that doesn't fit in 140 characters, no matter how hard I prune. So I just don't say them, or I say them to my reflection in the mirror as I get dressed, or I mumble them under my breath while walking on the beach. Until now, that is. This blog is basically going to be where I dump anything that is too long for Twitter. So there will definitely be a couple of 141 character posts. Plus some that will be longer, because I have finally committed to a college, a bank, one brand of toothpaste, and five potted plants, and hopefully that means that I have learned something since that last blog, and am ready to commit to saying stuff about other stuff with some degree of regularity. I guess we'll see...