Blog Beginnings

So, I have been meaning to start a blog for a long time (approximately 3 years…yeah I am a great procrastinator) but did not (obviously). Recently, Maureen Johnson followed by tons of people have decided to blog every day in April (BEDA).  I am going to join them.  If you know me well, you might be thinking this is an April Fool’s joke (because A) I love jokes, B) am inherently lazy and C) rarely finish anything completely) but it isn’t. At least that that is the story I am sticking to today.  Tomorrow when I don’t want to write anything, I may decide it really was an April Fool’s joke. For today though, it is FOR REAL and I intend to follow through.

Today will have 2 blog entries.  This introduction entry and then another (probably about cat behavior) that recently has been begging to come out.  I should probably save it for tomorrow, but as previously stated, tomorrow may never come and I really want to write about this.

 Now to the (sort of) intro blog post: 

Excuses for why I have not started a blog sooner (because I am good at making excuses)

 I thought that:

1)     I didn’t have the time,

2)     I had nothing to write about,

3)     it was too hard (ok, this is a lie, but I wanted 4 things on the list because 4 is one of my favorite numbers)

4)     Even if I did have something to write about, no one would care anyway due to my strange assortment of interests.

Well, upon further consideration I have decided that each of these points was not a truly valid reason not to start a blog because:

1)     I may not have the time, but I don’t have the time for a lot of other things that I insist on doing, so if I devote some of the time I waste on other things (facebook, twitter, obsessively checking my e-mail) to writing something useful (still to be determined) it might make me feel at least a little bit better about how I waste my time.

2)     Over the last few months I have thought of a multitude of things that I would want to write about, and believe it or not, they are sometimes about things that are not me complaining.  This is possibly the most amazing part given how much I love to complain.

3)     Well, I sort of knew the whole time that its not that hard to write a blog…but when I do something, it has to be done well, and I have read a lot of bad blogs in my years of interneting

4)     This has yet to be seen (and could possibly be very true).  But I don’t care, learning new and interesting stuff is good for you.

 

I think point 4 needs further explaining.

I really do have a variety of interests.  A (partially completed as per usual) list of topics you can expect to find covered here:

 -Animal Behavior
-Dog Training
-Animal Training in General
-Clicker Training
-Wildlife Conservation
-Green Technology
-Technology in General
-Health
-Autism Spectrum Disorders
-Neurology
-Green Living
-Farm Living
-Dog Agility
-Environmental Issues
-Science Topics
-Rants about Society
-Polo (the kind you play on horses)
-Veterinary Medicine
-Life as a Vet Student
-Anything Else 

Nothing is really off the table. If I feel like writing about it, I probably will.  Or at least I will think about writing it, but due to my brain being quite addicted to brain crack, I might not ACTUALLY write it.

 That’s all for now.