The Beginning
admin March 3rd, 2007
Hello to you all, my dear future readers.
I must admit to some amount of uncertainty and apprehension in writing this first post. It is afterall, my very first, and I have not a clue what I am doing.
On one hand, I am quite sure that unlike those already successful individuals tapping away in the blogosphere, no one will check my website this evening as the day winds down and the sun’s wane signals the end of another day, no one will stop here tomorrow morning, their hot coffee cup delivered mechanically back and forth while their eyes flit across these words, and no one will flip to this site from their list of favorites in between a phone call and that afternoon meeting, and be glad that this person they keep on hand to inform, to entertain, to inspire, has added one more piece of their life to the screen. I know I will post this and not a single person will read it. I have no admirers. I have no defilers. I have no casual observers. My website is the loner child. I am speaking in the dark.
But then again, this is the beginning. This is the post that will be read (hopefully) by those seeking to see how it all started, to see who I was when I began, and how I have changed. This post will be the appetizer, the first dance, the one that sets the flavor, whether complimentary or jarring, for all the rest. I reconsider. Perhaps this is the one that matters most.
Therefore, whether awful or enlightened, I feel that this post must stand as a marker. I must here define who I am so that you may judge what I write in the future, against who I was in the past. I do not expect you, dear reader, to read my words in a vacuum. You must file me according to your system and decide what you will take from me, and what you will leave be. You must determine my place among those millions of others. Let me introduce myself.
Hello, I am a
daughter, wife, woman,
artist, scientist, engineer,
writer, reader, singer
tree-hugger, photographer, student,
home-owner, thinker, agnostic,
lover, striver, friend.
I love animals, fast cars, plants, bright colors, beautiful people, unusual books, dark movies, flowery scents, grease, dirt, the feel of cashmere, warm sheets, hot showers, mornings spent outside, new shoes, dogs, running, the beach, dark chocolate, clean lab coats, cinnamon, and being naked.
I dislike cold showers, people who don’t respect children or animals, frilly girls, arrogant men, days without sunlight, litterers, people who don’t use turn signals, inefficiency, willful ignorance, popcorn dripping in butter, weak handshakes, treeless housing developments, and pointy-toes.
How very nice to meet you.
I think this should do for now. The rest you’ll just have to figure out for yourself.