Intentions for the blog, etc.

I've been thinking about the idea of "creating a blog" for some time now. Upon waking this morning, I decided today was the day. Went on a bike ride earlier today to get some exercise before attacking this beast. Now I'm sitting in my bed in comfortable clothing, with acoustic guitar music resonating throughout my room, ready to share all my deepest thoughts with the world (because that's how all bloggers do it right????)

I'm a thinker. I love wrestling with ideas and concepts. Currently, I have a very informal way of documenting my thoughts - I keep them in a notepad in my phone. I intend to develop these ideas into blog posts. I'd love to hear others' feedback on my posts.

I feel as though many bloggers have a theme of sorts to their page - maybe they write about cooking, or political ideas, or I don't know, a commentary on all of Justin Bieber's outfits in the past 5 years. I do not know the purpose of this blog, and I do not intend to ever really have a universal theme for it.

For me, it's about writing. I enjoy the process of connecting words together in order to express thoughts in a coherent, stylized manner. I want to use writing as a way to learn more about myself as well as sharing my ideas with others.

I haven't really written in a year. In high school, I wrote a good amount, as an editor of my school's newspaper as well as taking a variety of English and humanities classes that required lots of papers. This past year I went off to a big state university for my freshman year of college. My classes were large gen eds and the way of examination was usually multiple choice tests. For numerous reasons, I've decided that the whole big school thing wasn't for me, so another intention of mine for blogging is to improve my writing as I make the transition to a liberal arts college.

A little bit about more myself: I am a 19 year old female (pardon the formality of this statement. Labeling myself as "woman" didn't feel right, and neither did "girl"). I am pretty much an open book in terms of my interests. As a kid and throughout my young adulthood, I was involved in athletics (including playing on an all boys hockey team!), music, theater, service clubs, etc. I've pretty much tried it all. Now, I have an interest in music (have recently been teaching myself the guitar), health and fitness, and academia.

This fall will be a completely different time for myself. I am between colleges, so while I'll be finishing up some of my gen eds at community college, I'll have a huge amount of time on my hands. I'm really looking forward to it, though. I still feel unsure about what I'd like to study in school, so I plan to think about that more. I also want to think more about myself as a person, as lame as that sounds. I want to think critically about what I value and believe in, so I can guide myself toward a path for the future. I'm sure part of my blog will emcompass my journey through self discovery.

But I don't intend the purpose of this blog to be solely about myself and my experiences. I intend to discuss ideas, reactions to readings I've done, my commentary on current events, etc.

I apologize for this word vomit that I call my first blog post. If anything, I hope that I have expressed a little bit about myself and my intentions for this page, and I'm excited to see where this journey takes me.

I'm out for now, later fellow bloggers.