In Which I Start a New Blog...

Descriptive, right?

It's kind of a funny thing, me starting a new blog. The last time I started a new blog (the only blog I've ever had), I was a college freshman. It was March of 2001. Very few people were blogging, relatively. I had gotten an email in response to my GeoCities homepage (which I had coded myself in basic HTML back in high school. I had animated bullets for listed items. I felt special.), which invited me to join a "weblog community." The writer, unknown to me, complimented my writing style and hoped I would be her friend. "Bianca Broussard," Xanga's spam bot, had recruited me.

Xanga was tiny at the time. Most of the people who wrote thoughtfully were aware of each other, and there are a couple of bloggers from that time that I still follow. I even remember vehemently resisting the term 'blog, (does anyone remember that it used to have an apostrophe?) which seemed like cheesey artificial slang to me. Now Xanga is massive, populated mostly by teenagers in Asian countries, and converting its format to a feed style cribbed from Facebook. Only my family reads my blog, and no one comments. Indeed, I hardly ever write.

I guess I feel like I've grown out of Xanga. I somehow feel inspired to capitalize the first word of my sentences. I seem to think that I should have structured paragraphs and something to say, rather than pure gossip. I want cleaner formatting, no annoying widgets blinking for my attention, an end to the constant stream teenybopper feedback logs and survey points.

I also finally feel like I have a few things to say. I've been indulging in whole lot of mental nothing for the past couple of years. It's time to create something again. Time to read criticism and have thoughts. Even if I only express them to myself, at least I'm forcing them out into a legible format, and maybe eventually there will be dialog.

So, welcome to the inaugural post of Because I Say So. I think I'm going to try this out for a while.