Oh, I do love – the blog

Oh brother.

I have made yet another addition to my ever increasing repertoire of annoying habits. Answering an email should be a relatively simple task. Read the email sent to you. Answer any questions posed therein. Throw in a few pleasantries and a question in return - to keep the conversation going. Simple enough right? NO, I make it into a term-paper-sized project – deep reflection, research, writing, correcting, spell checking, proof reading, correcting, proof reading, correction, ad nauseam ...

Apparently there is a creative urge that dwells within me that has not been given adequate voice. Hence, THE BLOG! Oh, I do love – the blog. Where else can you freely ramble and vent and feel like it may actually be read by and appreciated by anyone given to perusing the world wide web? What better excuse to stress over every subtle nuance of thought and language. What better drives us to engage in deep thought, to think critically, and to examine and reexamine our logic? What better impetus to make us consider proper punctuation?

If I write privately none of this really matters. But, since I will stress over it anyway, why not make it count? Somehow, the thought that someone, somewhere, at sometime, may actually read it makes all of the time and effort put into it seem ... I don't know ... more ... appropriate ... and less ... obsessive. After all, I am now writing for the benefit of all mankind. At least all of mankind with an internet connection who happen to stumble across my blog out in here the vast reaches of virtual space, a.k.a. the "blogosphere". Blogosphere. Oh, I do love geeky new words.

Of course, as of yet, I have no knowledge of anyone actually reading my ramblings. But, I press on undeterred – my optimism and enthusiasm undampened. For all of my obsessing over my writing, I am, surprisingly, not obsessed over whether my carefully crafted musings are ever read by anyone. The fun is merely in the act of crafting and obsessing - with or without good reason. And ... Oh, I do love crafting and obsessing.