Entry the First- manifesto

It does no good to wait for the opportune time to start- I was hoping to get some rest before diving into this post, but this way I avoid the danger of never starting.

Since I got the itch to write here I've been writing this post over and over in my head, so there are a couple of things I want to get out before I forget and then I can quit for now.

The most important thing at the moment is to lay out this rule: if I spend ten minutes (or an appropriately extended period of time, ten is hopefully an exaggerated worst case scenario) staring blankly at the screen searching for the next thing I want to say, then that's it for the day. This isn't an article or project for anyone but myself, to cultivate my own writing and see what I'm most comfortable with. If I write fifty words and then it turns out that was all I had to say, so be it. Conversely, if I go on forever, well, that works just fine too.

My tendency is to write extended e-mails that could serve just as well as non personalized "blogs" (I really don't like that word) and seeing as how those e-mails usually just freak people out, well, here I am.

I had a professor who made a terrible first impression, that isn't anything new as far as professors go, but in this case I really ended up liking her, so there's the switch up. Wow, I totally forgot where I was going with that.

Okay, something else- wait wait I just remembered where I was going before- see, the reason a bad first impression was made was because the first thing that happened was a long, strict laying out of the rules. It was kind of a cold shower to an otherwise enjoyable time. You have to get used to the water I guess. But yes, I just wanted to make it clear that despite the fact that I'm talking about rules and goals, I'm not always going to be this boring.

I'll be an entirely different kind of boring.
I make bad jokes by the way. I'm sorry, I try to keep it in, but you know how defence mechanisms go. Automatically.

To return to the topic of what I'll be doing here- I was at a party around last christmas time, sitting in a spooky corner watching the people around me (I'm sorry, but it's interesting to people watch, you can learn a lot) and I noticed this one other guy that was really reserved, closeted, and very awkward. It wasn't until someone hit on the subject of Super Smash brothers (a video game, in case you weren't aware. If you need me to explain what a "video game" is, then I don't think there's anything I can do for you.) that he lit up, and happily joined in on the conversation. It was quite a transformation.

I'm very interested in poking around the edges of our various frames of reference, our areas of expertise, and personal recurring themes. You can talk to someone and think "wow, this person is amazing, is there anything they don't know?" but then you hit that wall where their information stops, maybe they don't know what super smash brothers is, and you remember that they are, in fact, human. It's a pretty comforting thought, until you remember that just because other people have limits, that doesn't erase your own! When people find my limit I'm inspired to expand my horizons- that's what ushered me into Dickens, Kevin Smith films, whatever. So hopefully by writing for a while certain things will be repeated enough that I'll get to know where my mind likes to go.

And I think that's more than enough for now.