There it is, the menacing imperative staring at me on the top of a blank page.
This first post will be out of character. It is my attempt to define what I want out of my blog, what I expect it to morph into over time.
a) This is an anonymous personal blog.
First and foremost, this blog will be pure self-display with no purpose beyond my own gratification. I am writing it based on the assumption that I am the only person reading it. The only person, that is, besides my ex boyfriend (hi, ex *waves*) who I have to believe has installed a key logger on my laptop. So there goes the anonymity… maybe I should do a clean install?
b) There is no one central theme to this blog.
Probably means I’m setting myself up for failure but eh, who cares. There are a number of broad themes, though, that will resurface over time. Of course I’ll use this blog to trace my mundane and not-so-mundane daily developments in an effort to process things and preserve memories. I also plan to spend some time here nailing down my short and medium term goals, and checking in on my progress towards them. And as I am documenting the presence and painting my future, I am also going to go back in time and every now and then recount tidbits of my past.
Finally, I will make an effort to blog about the finance insights I draw from my job – in order to force myself to really, truly think about the concepts I deal with on a daily basis. Over time I hope that this final theme will spin off into a separate blog, one that will be read and contributed to by my colleagues and peers – but I think it’s more than ambitious enough for a newbie to start a blog with multiple themes; I am not going to try to simultaneously kick off two blogs. So, for now, this will be a personal blog with the occasional finance post thrown in.
c) This is a writing exercise.
I haven’t done a lot of writing lately (gotta love being a number cruncher!). Even when I used to do a lot of writing, proof reading and editing my own pieces was never one of my fortes. The logical conclusion: my writing here will hopefully improve over time, and I see my blog as a way to re-learn the habit of writing and get better at it.
I am tempted to say “enjoy reading” but that somewhat contradicts my idea of me being (more or less) the only person reading this blog. So instead I’ll tell myself: “enjoy writing”.
