Goodness Gracious, a Blog!

Well, someone told me that, as an English Major, I had better just go and get a blog. I think it was another English Major, or perhaps someone who previously majored in English but now has a real life and career. I was previously unaware of how easy these things are to come by, but after about 35 seconds of selecting a username (lucky me, with an iGoogle account already in place...), I suddenly have one. It is currently summer break, and I have loads of time on my hands (thank you, Great Recession, for the abject lack of jobs for college students home for 4 months), and in this day and age, one tends to spend such lazy days in front of a computer, or at least once one (by which I mean myself in particular) has finished all of their New Yorker magazines that piled up over the academic year. 

Another reason someone like me might want to get a blog is this: I tend to have a lot to say. I can't imagine that all of it will be interesting to other human beings, but I suppose, if others begin to read this, they may be entertained. But don't get too excited now, because I tend to not keep journal-type things up to date with any sort of regularity. Seriously, I have a problem. A millions-of-four-page-diaries-from-every-period-of-my-life-sized problem. What I mean by this is: don't hold your breath. Also, while we're talking warnings, I really do try to have proper grammar (and, as an English Major, you KNOW I have the most recent Strunk & White sitting beside my bed for me to consult and feverishly attempt to memorize...), and I even use full punctuation when I text message, but please be patient; I'm still going to school for this. So don't cringe at my run-on sentences, mangled whoses and whoms, and often-excessive parentheses and commas. I'm human. And for God's sake (should I really capitalize that? I'm not really religious, but I'd rather not offend anyone in my first blog post... this might be harder than I'd anticipated) don't leave comments about my grammar. 

Anything else? Oh yes, there's this: I have no idea how to blog. Is it like a journal? Are you supposed to rant here? Is it rude to rant here? Should I comment on worldly goings-on? Would it be pretentious to blog about things I read about in the New Yorker? Is that copyright infringement? Can I even say "The New Yorker" here? Should I say "the popular commentary magazine characterized by its relevance to the peoples of New York" instead? I do write poetry, but internet publishing makes me nervous (those "terms of service" agreements are pretty vague), and so does the prospect of being one of the zillions of irritating online poets. Maybe I'll put some poetry here. But it won't be all that good. Poets have to be self-deprecating, you know, it's practically in the manual. Also, I ramble. I'm sure you can tell. I like how I've developed a "you" character already. No one is reading this. Come on. Or are you? 

Well, this post grows tedious, and I don't want to annoy you with my very first post. So I shall bring it to a conclusion. So there, I've begun a blog. Enjoy.