and so it begins...

i've always been pretty opposed to the "blogger" phenomenon, without ever really knowing why. i guess i never really understood blogs, and i thought they were just a hip new version of livejournal. i probably will be wasting my time in the grand scheme of things because i doubt that anything i write will be read by anyone but my closest friends or perhaps the random stranger who happens to come upon this and thinks "wow, this is interesting." i am definitely not a professional writer and i rarely have a train of thought longer than a car or two, but i've been thinking about what i like to do in my spare time and what makes me happy, and i finally realized that i actually do enjoy writing. sure, facebook has been good to me on the rare occasions that i decide to write something deep and thoughtful, but i wanted a place to collect all of my writings that i'm actually proud of.

thus, my blogger account.

this isn't going to be a place where i just put my "serious" revelations about my life or things that i notice in my life or in the lives of others, which is what i keep finding myself writing. in the end, i always think that i'm being melodramatic or "emo" (whatever that means anymore) so i'm not usually proud of that. i like to be funny every once in a while, i like to be serious every once in a while. which is why the title of this is "i am __________." there is no telling what this will be when i get it started, and picking a permanent address for this blog is probably harder than actually writing something to put in it. that label sticks with this from now until i abandon it, delete it, or otherwise step away from it. it will always be there, and that scares me. i don't want to say "this is going to be a serious blog" or "this is going to be a funny blog," because i absolutely hate giving things a label.

so i think i've ranted enough, i just wanted to put something here so it wasn't completely empty. hopefully i'll have something more worth the read later.