it’s all just a joke, right?
I couldn’t help it —- what first came to mind when I started this blog was high aspirations, quickly followed by the internal, one-sided conversation that reminded me that 1) nobody reads my blogs 2) I don’t have anything interesting to say, and even if I did 3) I don’t update consistently enough. Who am I kidding, anyway? In real life, you’d never find me expressing the thoughts that I intend to share here. These passing thoughts strictly stay in the confines of my mind for me to quietly smile at while sitting amidst other students in the Science & Engineering computer lab on campus.
I have yet to find anyone who consistently updated without some form of reinforcement, be it a comment scattered here or there (YAY SOMEONE IS READING) or two unique hits per day (MOVING UP!). Let’s face it —- we like to be heard. I am 99.9% sure that everyone who has ever owned a blog dreamed about a slew of followers or even becoming interesting enough to strike a book deal, quit your day job, and entertain the thought that they were a witty, talented writer.
I am sure I am following some form or another, also. I fit quite neatly into the group of new-blog-posters who write that they know no one is going to read their blog, they know that what they say isn’t really interesting, but they hope someone will and hope what they write will change one person’s life. Other categories include those who introduce themselves as interesting as they can as well as a plan-of-attack for their blog, those who jump right in to avoid the awkward first posts, and those who whine about one thing or another in a pseudo-witty sort of way (not without its share of profanity or neologisms). There are blogs for everything from cars to carpentry, with food, family, and fashion in between —- but why are these blogs interesting to us, especially when they belong to someone whom we do not know personally? What drives us to include these blogs into our RSS Feeds, bookmarked and stalked, imitated or hated?
Well, seriously, my name is Judy and I am a nobody. That’s really all you need to know about me. The more I go into detail about myself (which is inevitable, might I add, because I love to talk about myself) —- the it will make you generate some impression of me that is not true. And yes, you are correct if you already realize that you would do this anyway!
This blog is intended to be a collection of my musings on things that I learn, whether in living life or in my psychology courses, or it may just be a bunch of random things I find funny (which includes almost everything). Who knows, right?
