“Welcome to WordPress.com. This is your first post. Edit or delete it and start blogging!”
With those first words, an invitation, surely, I knew what I was in for. I was in for seven weeks of trying to maintain a blog, something I have attempted and failed repeatedly. Seven weeks of validating the immeasurable: my worth to internet society.
“Would things change this time? Would I be able to keep this going?” I asked myself, aloud, garnering undue attention from the loving fiancee who was unnerved every time I spoke to myself.
She merely cocked her head like a curious kitty-puss in my direction and began licking her paws, purring softly to herself. She knew how to drive a blogger wild.
Totally my fiancee, who'll lick her own paws but never lick... nvm. (Thanks to Flickr user mommato8 for the image)
I knew I could do it for English 444, Writing for the World Wide Web (a bit archaic, no?). The real question was: could I force myself to maintain a steady blog for an absent audience after this class ended?
We’ll see, but don’t hold your breath, you unfaithful-to-be readers. This blog will not reshape the web, will not gain me notoriety, fame, or wealth, and it will not be the most important thing in my life.
Still, if you do decide to stick around 1) you’re probably my professor or a classmate and 2) get ready for some exciting adventures with me and Ms. Kitty*!
*Ms. Kitty will be the name I use for my wonderful fiancee, mostly because she is allergic to cats and hates them. Also, it’ll be easy to find pictures of cats doing things in Google Image Searches.
Ms. Kitty doing a Google Image Search on herself.
