It’s always so difficult to start these sorts of things…

“…lots of time you don’t know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn’t interest you most.” – Holden Caulfield

Is it weak to start a blog with a Holden Caulfield quote? I guess it’s a bit insipid to start anything with a Holden Caulfield quote. Or mention him at all, really. You know he’d hate it, but at the same time, he’d probably kind of like it.

Now, I’m digressing before I’ve actually started explaining anything. I need to write something so I’m doing this blog. It’s not as easy as I thought it was going to be, for a start, I can’t figure out what all the buttons and options do on the customise page and, more importantly, I have no idea what the “theme” is. All the helpful websites say that you can only do this successfully if you have some sort of theme. Fortunately, I watched Seinfield a few months ago and it has inspired me to have a blog about nothing. I should have started this off with a George Costanza quote. That would have been more appropriate. Anyway, then I sat on my ass for a few more months feeling sorry for myself because I had writer’s block until this week I realised that if I don’t do something about this soon, I’m going to be working in a fatuous, low-paid job in the Civil Service for the rest of my life. The Civil Service is kind of a ‘Hotel California’ situation and I want to get out before I’m in too deep.

This is practice. I need to make a decent career writing so I can go and live on a beach in ACTUAL California and spend all day drinking red wine and writing on my Smith Corona typewriter because my laptop just isn’t frustrating enough.

This really is a meandering pile of nonsense but I hope it’s done it’s job and given the unfortunate reader a glance into my current situation and motivation. I guess I should look up one of those 30 day challenges that were big four or five years ago to get me going until I figure out how this website works and what the hell this particular blog is about.