A New Year, a New Hobby

Well hello 2011... and any readers that you might bring with you (although I am not hopeful),

Recently I've been doing some thinking - I'm a writer (always have been and always will be) but unlike more writers I do not have a blog. In the past I always thought the idea was a bit pretentious. I mean let's be real, who is going to care enough about some random strangers life to want to read about it? And continuing in this vain of honesty, my life isn't all that interesting to the outside observer. Know how there's that saying "If someone wrote a book about your life, would anyone read it?" Frankly, no. I'm not saying my life sucks - quite the contrary in fact! I consider myself exceedingly blessed; I have a wonderful family that loves me and isn't dysfunctional, I have amazing friends who stick by me, I am more or less intelligent, go to a great university, am part of the best sorority on the planet, and according to Dr. Y I have a very promising future in the world of playwriting. It's a great life, but particularly interesting? No. Sure there's some occasional boy drama (ok more than occasional...) but nothing completely out of the ordinary. And unfortunately none of it has caused my facebook relationship status to change from "single."

So if nothing interesting happens in my life, why write a blog? I all ready have a private journal to satisfy my need to write and recount the enjoyable if not fascinating parts of my life and just TALK about ME.

Well as I said, I'm a writer. This is what I do. Unfortunately, however, I am very bad at sitting my but down and being disciplined and productive. My goal for the New Year is to get better at that. I am determined to write in this blog on a weekly basis if only to keep up my skills and practice being witty. Pretentious? Completely. Self-centered? Totally. Practicle? I think so. Hopefully my weird need for attention will spur me to stick to this goal.

Oh yeah thats another reason why I never started a blog in the past - I LOVE attention. I'm not crazy - I don't steal people's limelight and I try really hard not to talk about myself too much. I keep myself under control. But I always try out for plays, am first to volunteer for karaoke (even though I'm not that great), volunteer to talk in class (also because I like discussions and other people are lame and don't). Basically I do not need another outlet for seeking attention. But I have a solution. I do not plan to advertise this blog. I am going simply write for me and whoever else discovers this and finds it insightful enough to follow. As if...

So that's why I have this blog. I won't claim to have a theme or plan for what I am going to write about. If I'm honest boys will probably come up a lot. In addition to being an attention whore I am also a little boy crazy. But there there is no set goal other putting words to page (or screen as the case may be). So whoever you are out there reading this I hope you enjoy. Welcome to my life.