Second post second post second post...

I refuse to be crippled by an overabundance of choice!

I can see why people would choose themes for their blogs, I really can. I was always the kid who hated it when an english teacher would tell us to write a story or an essay about "anything". Lack of perameters terrifies me. Waddaya MEAN, anything?!!! I can't deal with that! Give me an idea! A jumping off point! Telling me I can do whatever I want is just cruel!

But I shall not let this blog die after one post, damnit! So I am going to sit here and listen to Challengers and munch on my grapes until I think of something.

Incidentally, is anyone else as sad as I am about the whole "grapes are now bad for us" thing? I remember a time when the reasoning was that grapes were green and come out of the ground, and were therefore good for us. And now Cosmo's telling me that they're full of the wrong kind of sugar and will make me retain water. An ugly trend, if you ask me.

Actually, these grapes smell really funny. Kinda like someone ate stew out of the tupperware they're in and then just rinsed it out before putting it back into the cupboard where all the smells have been stewing for six months. I think I am going to go throw these out, now, before they upset my tummy. Excuse me.

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That took much longer than expected! I got distracted by the dog - she wanted to play with the Chewy Toy, and I could not refuse her. I kinda miss these animals when I'm not around them. They make excellent bed companions, pillows, and give you a delightful sense of ownership. And whenever I'm worried that one of the Crazy Small Town Albertans has broken into my house and is about to kill me with a broken bottle, I am much reassured that the dog would probably hear them before they could get to me.

Oh goodness, I'm babbling. I've been set loose without a topic! LOOK OUT!!!

Ummmmm.

I give up. I just wrote a very long paragraph filled with much nothingness, and now I give up. I'll think of something interesting later, I PROMISE.

I appear to be blogging again!

Well hello internets! Kate Spencer is back, and she is blogging!

This is exciting, folks. I haven't blogged since I was back in grade twelve and thought that this was a healthy way of venting my frustrations! Back when I thought the internet was a secure place for all my thoughts and feelings, and when telling everyone who was reading all the sordid details of my current crush didn't seem like a big deal. Oh, how I have matured, how I have grown.

In fact, my emotional and mental growth was exactly the reason that I shyed away from the ol' blogosphere. I was too old and wise to risk the obsession and the silliness that is blogging. But now that I'm a journalism student and I have to keep my opinions and thoughts and ramblings out of my articles (some bullshit about word count. Who even knows) I find that I miss it. So I'm back. And trying desperately to think of something to say.

You know what I've been doing lately? It's shameful, and I really hate to admit it. But I have been going through my books, and actually READING all of them. I realized a little while ago that I have all these books in my bookshelf that I have never read. Books that I've bought or have been given to me that I just never found the time for. I was probably distracted by Cosmopolitan. Or Coupland. Either way, there was a copy of Persuasion in my collection. And I have never read it. I won't share all the other titles that I pretend to know anything about. Because the list is long and embarrassing. But damnit, I am going to go through them all, and I shall READ them! It's very exciting.

A thought just occured to me. Do I need a theme, here? Everyone has music blogs, or literature blogs, or deep, meaningful, look-at-me-I'm-so-smart-and-insightful blogs. Do I need to pick a category for myself? Or is silliness and sleep deprivedity enough of a genre to be in?

This blogging thing involves a lot more pressure than I remembered...