"Documenting the progress of a highly-motivated underachiever"

Sunday, April 11, 2010

A Mile Wide and a Foot Deep

The whole reason I ever had the idea to start a blog was because I feel like I have so much going on in my head at once that I feel like I need to document it so that I can finally let it go. Maybe that's weird, but maybe you're weird!

So being the way I am cognitively, I always seem to have something to say on a seemingly infinite number of topics. They can range from the highly intellectual to the blatantly absurd and can sometimes blend into some kind of "intellectual-absurdity" hybrid. Basically, I'm interested in everything I've ever thought about; well, anything I've ever put some thought into anyway.

So employing the new "go get 'em" attitude I've tried so hard to buy-in to (still waiting for it to become habit), I went and did a little research on how to make a "good" blog since I want this to last. Pretty much across the board, the first step seems to be to "find a niche" to write about.

So what's my niche? What is it that I want my blog to be "about"? Something tells me that filling the "funny,witty, intelligent-but-admittedly-underachieving, not-liking-to-shave, pro-wrestling-watching, football-withdrawal-experiencing, Go-Dolphins!-ing, going-back-to-school-for-the-third-time-but-I'm-serious-about-finishing-this-time" niche might be a little too narrow. The fact is that because my interests go in all directions, my blog would likely go in all directions. Otherwise, it would defeat the purpose of my starting this blog in the first place! So, taking part of what one of my favorite professors at a community college in Pennsylvania once said, this blog will be "a mile wide and a foot deep".

So let's see where this goes!

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