Blogitis

Blogitis: Also called the Blog Bite, is a systemic disease caused by an individual's urgent need to divulge personal opinions, perspectives, and thoughts to the masses. The Blog Bite is generally transmitted via peer pressure. A previously content individual may be led to believe that it is healthier and more fulfilling to put one's thoughts in writing and express them in a public setting. As a result, we see that Blogitis, once confined to a minority of participants, is now a world-wide pandemic.

Early symptoms may include lack of sleep, strained eyes, and accelerated carpal tunnel. Infected persons often complain of increased attention deficit due to the individual's preoccupation and obsession with the topic and content of their next blog entry.

Symptoms generally appear within 1 to 3 weeks of infection, although some have shown progressive symptoms in as little as 24 hours after exposure. Untreated cases are eventually socially fatal. People who become ill with lack of sleep, obsessive tendencies, or other manifestations of Blogitis are advised to seek early social intervention. Blog Bite can usually be cured by an appropriate course of anti-anti-social therapy. Fresh air and direct sunlight are the drugs of choice to treat the early stages of this disease. Progressive stages require the disappearance or fatal death of the infected person's computer.

No vaccine is available to prevent this disease. Infected persons are attracted to new blog posts, breaking news, and interesting or annoying life events. Individuals are encouraged to avoid these dangerous areas to avoid the Blog Bite. Non-bloggers at risk of peer pressure from infected individuals are advised to avoid boredom, procrastination, and late unplanned evenings that may lead to blogging.

I've arrived

Blogging. It was going to take a long stretch of procrastinating boredom to get me started blogging. Don't get me wrong, i enjoy reading other people's blogs, I'm fortunate to have some witty and intelligent friends that keep me entertained. But I'm better at appreciating others' creations than actually creating something myself, even if it is just a blog. But eh, what the heck, why not join the throngs that spill their thoughts onto a digital page.

It was either this or Facebook. Not that I had to do either, come to think of it. Honestly, I'm only a paragraph into blogging and I can already see the draw to Facebook. All you do is post a few pictures, accept the occasional (or constant) request for "friendship" and update a short status, as needed. I definitely picked the more demanding route here, one that asks for insight, thought, poetry, or wit. But then maybe I'm giving blogging too much credit.

So, it is surprisingly quick & easy to setup a blog. The hardest part was picking a stupid background. Oh the pressure! Did I want to be cutesy? funny? serious? pretend like I hadn't thought about it at all? Well, we now know the latter isn't true. How about ambivalent? Neither too serious, nor too cutesy. I finally picked a background I could live with. After a minute I realized it reminds me of the Larry King Live set with a touch of Stampin' Up influence. I kinda like it.

And so goes my first blog...