another graphic T

I've always considered blogs as trendy and fringing on obnoxious. Every time a friend began a blog, I would secretly scoff, "what makes so-and-so think that what he or she is saying is so important?" I didn't understand why people felt the need to slosh together the mundane details of their lives- "today my dog threw up on the my bed"- and  all of their existential thoughts to date. And then, of course, I would go and read it, shamelessly. 

But I am weak and usually come around to trends eventually. Perhaps I just like the element of resistance before I sheepishly buy that graphic t- shirt again and again. The same graphic t-shirt that, a few months ago, I declared garish. 

The thing is, from the moment that I front resistance, I know I will fall prey to the trend at hand. In fact, I anticipate and project approximately how long it will take me to come around. It took approximately a year for me to accept the bedazzled graphic t-shirt. A few more to start blogging.

Maybe it was out of laziness, shame of laziness, or concern that everyone might discover that my writing capabilities are actually somewhat...average. Either way, I am waving my white flag and blogging. 

I am hoping that the blog becomes more than a graphic t-shirt for me. Eventually, I will let them dissipate into the dark depths of my closet when I decide its time to unearth my polo shirts again. I am hoping that this blog is not something that will amuse me for a short stint before i 'forget'- which really means 'choose not to'- to write in it for weeks at a time. If anything, it can very well serve as a strategic tool for procrastination. I hope that I can take this as an opportunity to highlight the people and places that I find, at the very least, mildly amusing.

Well, as they say in Spain, vamos a ver.