Yo, where my peaches at?!

My will to blog has been developing slowly as I have been reading other people's blogs -- my friends' and famous people's. All right, maybe not Jesus or Beatles famous, but more famous than me. In fact, my blog name blatantly rips off OK Go's blog (http://thewilltorock.blogspot.com). OK Go is a great (and "famous") band from Chicago that I like. I decided on the quasi-plagiarism after discovering that my first-choice name (http://dartsofpleasure.blogspot.com -- blatantly ripped off my favorite Franz Ferdinand song) was taken. I like this current blog name much better. Thanks, OK Go!

As an amateur humanist/social scientist (or, if you prefer less pretentious terms, a frighteningly over-qualified potential stalker), I like learning about people's lives - those I know personally or through history/media. I love reading blogs. However, I've been loath/loth (see comments) to blog myself. Besides the fact that people can potentially stalk me (hey, this is a one-way street, baby...), it seems that a lot of blogs are very complaint heavy, even if they are amusing. Knowing the person I am (er, because I'm me), I can see my posts degenerating into massive bitchfests. For example, a rant about how my fruit-on-the-bottom yogurt this morning was distinctly lacking peaches even after vigorous stirring. Or an irrevelant and pretentious philosophical musing à la Seinfield, except completely devoid of humor ("Why...do people wear pants?"). Boring others with my own feigned self-importance seems selfish. Plus, the thought of exposing my crappy writing, mispellings, and improper punctuation to readers is wholly intimidating, not to mention scarring to my title of 4th Grade Class Spelling Bee Champion. Of course, this is assuming that people will even read this blog. Pretty darn presumptuous and self-important of me, huh?

Anyhoo, I have decided to embark on this blogging endeavor mostly because of one reason: at the end of Summer 2005, I will be chucking my job and pursuing a year of income-less wanderlust. Kind of like Gauguin, except sans the trysts with adolescent Tahitians and syphilis (I hope). I wanted a way to let my friends and family know that I would be a-OK during my solo travels. I also thought that blogging would be a great way of sharing my new cultural and personal experiences with others. I am beginning to post a little in advance of my exit from Chi-town so that I may experiment with Blogger and make this experience - both aesthetically and content-wise - as painless as possible for any readers.

So this I pledge to you: I will try my very best not to complain about the inanities of life such as lack of peaches at the bottom of yogurts. What you will actually get is much less certain, but thus begin my blogging (mis?)adventures. Get used to the writing style as demonstrated in the title of this post: inappropriate colloquialisms, phrases that end with prepositions, and enthusiastic overuse of punctuation marks. Whee!! See what I'm talking about?