Generally speaking, modern people have the attention span of a fruitfly. A friend of mine makes a solid argument that the ruination of society's ability to focus on any single thing began with the microwave and went downhill from there; regardless, most folk can't stand reading something for more than a few seconds -- and in some cases, even less -- if there's not something that JUMPS OUT AT THEM right off the bat.

It's something I've learned as both as (shameless plug...hey, I'm proud of what I do, so sue me) Entertainment Editor of the university student newspaper, and as the Assistant Editor for a popular gaming website (3.5 million readers monthly, baby). Now I'm not going to sit here and go on, whining about how patience is a lost virtue or anything; that's not the point I'm trying to make.

My point is, there isn't anything particularly different about this blog that's going to pull you in, nothing shocking or daringly artistic, nothing particularly noteworthy that's going to make this blog stand out from the reams of others you can find scattered across this Great Web of Ours. I'm not doing this for a readership, I'm not doing this in the hopes of gaining virtual popularity, and I'm not doing this for friends and family to gawk so that they can get some inner glimmer of who I am.

I'm doing this for four reasons: First, my life is lived almost totally online (see the jobs listed above), and I do NOT have the time, nor the inclination to do the whole pen-'n'-paper diary thang. Naturally, since I'm on the Internet 24/7, it only makes sense that I toss my thoughts out onto virtual paper rather than the real thing. Secondly, I've got this weird streak of conceptual exhibitionism -- not the need to show off flesh, but more of a need to show off personal ideas and thoughts -- like most bloggers, really. Third, it's therapeutic, dammit. Sometimes isolationist hermit-like freaks such as myself have to express our thoughts SOMEHOW, and this is as good a way as any. Finally, I just flat-out love to hear myself talk. Hey, I don't make any bones about it...I laugh at all my own jokes, and I find myself the funniest, wittiest person I know. I don't care what anyone else thinks of me...so long as I can thoroughly amuse myself, that's all that really matters, isn't it?