Ego Trip

So I've been kinda thinking... I just started blogging yesterday, and certainly not about anything significant. I've given this link to just a few people, and was in IMs with them anyway, so the ones that commented at all, did it there. I DO have this link posted as part of my profile on BFS too, but I never hit anyone else's "WWW" button, so don't expect them to hit mine. And yet I'm still looking forward eagerly to the day when people post responses.

Now I've never done the blogging thing much before, and never been THAT into reading them, though there are some I know who read a lot of very good military blogs. My view, ATM, is that I already spend way too much time doing stuff I shouldn't be doing, and to get addicted to reading others' blogs won't help matters. The reason I'm really writing one - well, there are TWO reasons... one, I need to purge these random thoughts out of my head or else I develop a bad case of insomnia, and two, by making this a semi-public forum, I am slightly LESS likely to dwell on some subjects that I really need to put out of my head. Mostly the whole "men" issue, which in reading back you can see I have touched on... but just a little touch, and certainly not laden with details. (That purge is saved, when necessary, for my private computer.) As a newbie blogger and a non-blog-reader, I'm not sure what makes up a good blog, so if I'm screwing up royally, chalk it up to inexperience and then tell me (gently, please, as my feelings are quite bruised and battered these days) where I'm going wrong and how I can improve. Here's what I PLAN for this, though: 1) Weird random thoughts and ideas, like the Stones situation; 2) topics that come up in my grad school classes, where either we run out of classtime while I still have ideas to spew, or where I'd love the input of people NOT embedded in the field of social work/nonprofits/social services; 3) general issues that come to mind, where I would also like input from others, particularly those with differing viewpoints; and 4) Bragging, whenever the situation calls for it, about the three most beautiful little girls on the planet.

Current fascinations: The military/troop support; The Rolling Stones; spirituality and how and when it does or does not align with personal behavior; how people can have many things in common and still have big ideological differences