How It All Began ...

As usual, there are a million and one things that I should be doing and yet I always manage to find a way to avoid doing what I should be doing. Actually "manage" probably isn't the "mot juste" in this case since what I really have is more like a knack and/or penchant for always doing what I shouldn't be doing. It's just one of those recurring themes of my life.

I really wish some clever person would figure out a way to invent an automatic though recorder which one could use to translate what one thinks directly into writing (get on it Nobel Prize-seeking scientists!) because I've thought about how I'd like this very first post of mine to go at least a dozen times and yet when the time comes to actually write it, it's like I've got nothing. This tends to happen with a lot of what I think about - especially homework/papers. Unfortunate really. Granted, I understand how scary the thought can be of having every single thought you have recorded into nonretractable proof, but as of now the positives are outweighing the negatives in my book. Hmm ... maybe more on that later. There are certainly some interesting moral quandaries to pursue on that subject.

Well, it's probably better if I just get this first post over with. There always seems to be a lot of pressure when it comes to the first of anything really given how critical first impressions can be. Well, in my case it's probably better to just set the standards really low so as not to get anyone's expectations too high. This blog is really just a way to try and get me to hold myself accountable in ways which I will explain in some future post. (I would really like to get this post posted before it becomes 10/12 because in reference to the title of this post,it just so happens that my parents met each other for the very first time on October 11, 1973. Aww ... ^.^) Whether it is coincidence or not, I'm not sure, but today just so happens to be National Coming Out Day as well. So Happy National Coming Out Day everyone, and so it begins ...