Introductions

I've wanted a blog forever, and now I have one, and I find it unnerving to post. Not really a good sign, I'd say, but I hate first posts and autobiographies, as a rule, so I'm going to pretend I'm confident that this will fade and say that I am, and maybe it will make it true.

The number one reason why this blog exists is to hopefully remedy a persistent problem I have with keeping in touch with people. I love e-mail; I personally think it's one of the greatest inventions of all time; I would never talk to over half my friends if it didn't exist. But I'm a junior in high school, and it's getting on toward the end of the year. At present I have about three projects, the SAT, and of course EOC exams hanging over my head. It's hard to write ten or twenty e-mails daily, no matter how much I want to, and I procrastinate with schoolwork as it is. While blogging might also be time-consuming, I'm hoping that by posting one item every couple of days or so that everyone can read and comment on, I can let people know I haven't fallen off into some random place beyond the edge of the world and still get my schoolwork done. :) Not that I won't still e-mail, of course...

So, this will be a place for thoughts, experiences, writing prompts and articles (and probably a great deal more to do with writing--I am a writer, after all), links to interesting stuff on the net, probably some of those cool little blog quizzes (just because), discussions of politics and other current issues, and I don't know what else. Enjoy. And if anyone comes across this and thinks it's pointless and decides to tell me so, just know this beforehand: I don't care, because you're wrong. Everyone has something to say, and I happen to be a someone, just like you, so don't waste my time or yours; just don't read it. For those of you that are interested, enjoy...if that's the right word. :)