A Real Blog

I’ve done what I said I would never do (see first blog entry: "Do I REALLY want to be the person with facebook, myspace, a separate site for blogging??").

The answer, less than a year later, is yes.

I am now the proud owner of:
1) a myspace account
2) a facebook account
and now
3) a blogspace account

Yes. I now have an honest to goodness blog just for my random thoughts that flow ever sporadically into the world wide web.

Listen.

I can explain.

Many of my friends have been getting their myspace accounts hacked into and it made me nervous that my entries would be gone forever. This may be fine to you- yes you passive reader whoever you may or may not be in the unknown void of space and time- but these are my accounts, my only real accounts of what my life has been all about.

I moved my past myspace entries into my new account (for posterity as you can see) and my memories- from New York to San Fran and back again- returned. I fear these specific memories would be gone if it wasn’t for these digital reminders. And who would want to forget Gus’wood tick tumor “surgery” as accounted in the November 02, 2006 entry? My adventures in hair “cutting” on September 12, 2006? Living in shit on July 09, 2006- why would I ever want to forget living in that shit on July 9th!!? These are the things that would be lost forever in the cloud on my mushy memory!

In seriousness, these entries also serve as a self-teaching tool. Example? Even after living in shit on July 09, 2006, and later in the day getting jacked in Oakland, I kept my go-with-the-flow, Mexican-food-loving self levelheaded. I confirmed “never worry works” cite September 12, 2006 when I took photos of myself on my new macbook. I also realize that my ‘bed feeling’ is a repeat issue for me whenever I’m in times of great change (see March 28, 2007 and June 07, 2006). Very insightful.

As my mother told me (numerous times) “you always learn the hard way”. And for better or (mostly) worse, it’s true. I always have to “do” to learn, so I might as well remember, learn, and study my past. As much as I hate to admit it, a blog is a pretty good way for me to do it.