So, after much hulabaloo (sp?) about which template to choose for my blog, I finally decided to use my orignal choice. So much for being original. I do have to thank Jacob, though, for putting up with my indecisiveness.

So now that I have a blog, and now that I have all of two followers (very important followers, I might add), people can read my writing. This is a big deal, for me anyway. We're talking about me, the senior undergraduate who completely screwed up a conference presentation because I just could not make myself read my term paper. I mean, this is the thing. When people read my writing, I feel naked. I feel like my writing defines so much about who I am. My writing, even if it's fiction, reveals personal secrets. And now, I have a blog. I am voluntarily publishing my thoughts on the Internet for all to read. Well, at least Jacob and Jordan, anyway... So, now I'm asking myself, "why blog?"

I need to blog because I need to overcome this (ir)rational fear. What I want more than anything in the world is to write, and not only that, but to write things that people read. I'm hoping that blogging will help me build courage (oh, no, now Jacob is coming ever so close to my computer, and I'm tempted to minimize the screen, but he's just going to see it anyway, oh, god. good. he left. now he's back. okay. I think he's really gone) to let people read my thoughts and even criticize my writing if they want. What I have to do is learn to do this for myself. I have to write for myself, because I want to, because I need to, because I have to. Because I love to.