To blog or not to have a new excuse to avoid work and stay up late

Alright. So it looks like I gave in. I am surprising myself a little bit with this. I have started a blog. Why? Explore that question with me. The clear answer is... I don't do anything else with my life, so why not start a web log and share that with the world via the internet. Ah, yes. The reason of being for most bloggers and I am feeling pretty damn good tonight about joining their ranks.

But seriously, I carefully considered this decision before jumping online. I have found secret pleasure in flying under the radar of the 3 or 4 people out there who might remember who the hell I am and who don't talk to me on a semi-regular basis. You know who you are. No, not you. I have so far avoided myspace, facebook, livejournal, etc. And why have I held out so long? Let me give you a short rundown of my reasons not to blog:

1) I don't want to be reminded by a readership of -2 people that my life is mundane and doesn't interest me and therefore doesn't interest other people.
2) Blogging is becoming a part of pop culture and therefore I need to pretend not to be interested in it because I am too deep and complex to be interested in the most popular things of popular culture.
3) I waste enough time late at night and during the day checking other people's webpages and therefore do not need one of my own to add to the list of things that wastes my time.
4) I am not that funny and I don't want people to think that I think that I'm funny because I am aware of the fact that relatively speaking, I am not that funny.
5) The whole concept of a blog is very self-indulgent.

So these are all reasons why I have talked myself out of doing anything like this up until now. Believe me though that I did think long and hard about the benefits and the consequences of selling a bit of my soul to the blogging community. And then I drank 3 Mandarin flavored Smirnoff Twisters and decided, "Yes. Today will be my day to start a blog." These were my logical reasons why I should indeed claim my own little piece of the world wide web.

1) I read this really horrible blog tonight that was written by this girl I knew from school. It was all about her baby and it made me sick and annoyed with all things blogspot. And then I thought, "Okay, if she can do that, then I get to do that too." (Get to have a blog, not have a baby)
2) I am tired of using the fact that my life is boring as a reason not to enjoy it and a reason for other people not to enjoy it with me.
4) I need to find a new way to waste time.
3) The 3 previously mentioned Smirnoff Twisters. Alcohol lowers my inhibitions and makes me think I am more likeable.
4) I don't like that I care so much about what people think of me. Even if they think I'm boring.
5) The whole concept of a blog is very self-indulgent.

So now you know why I have started blogging. I wonder if anyone else is ever even going to read this post. I guess we will see. If you ARE reading this, then wow. Okay. Great. That's great. Thanks for reading. Come back and check it out again sometime soon. It probably won't get much better than this. It might, but it might not. So my little bit of advice is to keep your expectations as low as possible. It helps. Promise.