Me? Blog? What? An explanation...

i don't usually do this.

i don't count creativity as one of my strong points. i don't keep a journal. i draw stick figures. i am prone to awkward silences and then have trouble breaking them without repeating something already said in the conversation. even though i love to play the guitar, it is beyond my ability to put individual notes together to form a unique melody (never mind my tuneless-bucket syndrome). i took an intro to poetry* class at UNC (to which i had to present clearly sub-par work... it was an interesting semester), and still nothing flipped the creativity switch to the "on" position.

so why start now? why keep a blog? why should i make what would most likely be a feeble attempt at creativity, and do so on such a public medium?

call it me wanting to imitate the maturity of the friends i have who use their blogs to express thoughts and teachings on Christianity, to offer interpretations of the wild world of sports, or to share insight into a time of service for those less fortunate. or call it me wanting to get into one of the fastest growing new internet things. call it me wanting to have yet another thing that i can keep updated. you might even call it me trying to understand how i am now earning a weekly pay check, paying car insurance and no longer relying on a piece of plastic with my face and school on it to eat anymore when i so hugely miss the days spent on a hill with a well and a bell.

i'll call it a mix of all the aforementioned. i will not, at this point, call this a means for me to practice being creative (as if it is a skill to be learned). i aim to serve myself by doing something new and different in keeping this blog.

know that i do not look to "wow" anyone with this blog. if you get something out of it, excellent. let me know. we can talk about it and be happy for one another. but please don't expect to.

i ask that you remember throughout my bloggings that i value your opinion. seriously. be neither hesitant nor timid. i don't know where this blog junk is going to go for me but if it merely serves as a way for me to maintain some form of communication with old friends, then i will be content.

thanks and ill see y'all soon

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*it must be noted that ENGL 25W fulfilled the upper level aesthetic perspective which provided the sole motivation for me to take such a class. it must also be noted that at the end of the class, after all of my poems were critiqued, edited and recompiled into a final portfolio, i was proud of what i had made... even if it really wasn't all that impressive in and of itself. if you're really nice, i might let you read one of them.