Perhaps that isn’t the most accurate title. I suppose I led you all on, but I need to get readers somehow, right? For those of you looking to buy tickets to a high-class country freak show, you may want to redirect your google search elsewhere. For those of you looking into some low-class blogging, well, then you’ve come to the right place!
First, allow me to introduce myself to you. I am a journalism student interested in pushing my way into the entertainment industry. Unfortunately for me, I do not have some distant uncle in L.A. who knows someone who knows someone who can get me in touch with a star. So, I’m going the old-fashioned route and studying journalism for four years to get my degree in the hopes of getting that dream job. Well, in the hopes of being somebody’s assistant and doing coffee runs with the eventual goal of getting my dream job.
So, since I’m not rubbing elbows with TV execs and movie stars, I’ve decided to blog. I guess I should tell you what this blog is about. Since this is my first entry, I’m not sure yet, but it will probably be about my life. I guess a more definitive answer would be what this blog is not. It is not a gossip website on celebrities, an informative website on politics, a feature website on techy gadgets. It’s just a good-old fashioned blog for people who actually like to read, like myself.
I suppose the real ‘kick-in-the-pants’-if you will-for me to finally start this blog after years of suggestion from journalism teachers, is the novel Julie and Julia by Julie Powell. In her non-fiction novel, Powell describes her experience blogging about her year spent cooking her way through Julia Child’s cookbook. She calls her blog readers ‘bleaders,’ which I will forgo, as I pronounce it ‘bleeders’ and that doesn’t sound so nice, now does it? I actually have not come up with a name since, well, I don’t really see anyone actually reading this, so I suppose I don’t have to worry about terms and technicalities now do I?
If I don’t plan on people reading this, then what am I doing? Well, as an avid journalist (a diarist who writes in journals, as opposed to a working journalist, which I hope to be), I am used to writing without the intention or expectation of people actually reading it. Well, with journals I guess if someone did read it it wouldn’t be such a nice thing, now would it? So I guess I’m writing this blog just because I want to. Because I love to write and I have an insatiable appetite to do it.
I do not plan on officially launching the site until August 15, 2009. Why? Well, right now I have no articles scanned or put into the site, and the main purpose is to use that section of the site as a portfolio. And right now, it’s a little lonely looking.
I feel like I’ve covered all I need to cover in this introduction my blog. By now I hope you have a teensy idea of what to expect in the upcoming entries.