I fell into this great position working as a research associate this summer at Notre Dame and soon learned the following things from the Graduate Fellow brave enough to let me play with toxic chemicals: 1. Any machine costing over a million dollars will break more frequently than a yarn addict driving through alpaca country and 2. To render a graduate fellow speechless you utter the words, “I know nothing about blogging.”
Once recovered, said Graduate Fellow proceeded to show me her blog (http://chemgeek.net/misadventures) and, while entertaining, I did not immediately feel the need to rush right out and commit myself to yet another daily routine. After all, there are days when I have to pencil in combing my hair.
The following week, my mom came to visit and while sharing copius amounts of Margueritas delighted in telling me all about her blog (http://savanvleck.wordpress.com/) . A little creepy, two in one week, but OK I just assumed this blog uprising is an isolated phenomenon infecting people who have no one but small children and men to talk to in person.
My paranoia set in when, last week, my grandmother……yes, GRANDMOTHER: defined as lady in her mid-eighties wearing abnormal amounts of pink clothing that poop kleenex (I’ll explain later) started her own blog (http://padairvanvleck.wordpress.com/). No, I do not jest. This is the woman who had the cable TV company send her TWO cable boxes because the switch they said was on the back of the box was not there. It seems she wasn’t looking on the OTHER back.
Apparently while I was gleefully trudging along the path to a Master’s degree, the blog pushers came to town. I’m not sure what they used to allure their unsuspecting victims: Post it on the Internet, those people will read anything or Now the entire world can enjoy the pictures of your colonoscopy. No matter the bait, everyone around me has succumbed. I now have a list of blogs to monitor and comment on. The pressure to be witty (while also being sober) is intense. And while visiting several blogs certainly feeds the ADD, I have apparently overlooked the warning labels identifying blogging as a communicable disease. (Or it is highly possible that it was prominently displayed in -7 pt font and I missed it.)
So here I am. Blogging. I hope you’re all happy.
Tags: Blogging, humor, Notre Dame
June 26, 2008 at 8:44 am |
HAHAHAHAHA! You know it’s bad when your 80-something year old grandmother beats you to the blogosphere.
Welcome to the addiction!
June 26, 2008 at 9:29 am |
Welcome to our world!
June 26, 2008 at 9:30 am |
Ah Hah! This is your mother, it is 10pm and I am in contact with the other Blog pushers, even your Notre Dame lab person. Beware! B-PU.
June 26, 2008 at 9:38 am |
Thank you all for the welcomes! I had three posts in the last 5 minutes and I’m already overwhelmed. I need a hydration pack filled with daquiri so I can drink and type at the same time! (Really people, I rarely drink but one can aspire can’t she?)
Ok mother……….. I’ll let you play with my friends as long as you don’t neglect your blog-work. I do feel obligated to warn others though that you do get a tad punchy after 10pm.
June 26, 2008 at 9:40 am |
I think it is *awesome* your grandmother is blogging! I’m going to have to read all 3 of you.
Blogs are fun!
June 26, 2008 at 10:01 am |
Tali sent me. The addiction is coming. Pretty soon you be telling strangers to move out of the way I need to get a picture of that for my blog. And then you’ll hear yourself say it and ask what happened to me?
June 26, 2008 at 10:01 am |
Thanks Bezbe! Hey family………we have groupies!!!!
June 26, 2008 at 10:04 am |
Welcome to the world of blogging! May I say that, for a new blogger, you have a wonderful “voice.” I really enjoyed reading your first posts! They were fun, funny, conversational, and confident. A+ !!!
June 26, 2008 at 10:06 am |
The infection has already spread Kandace. I’ve just spent an hour trying to figure out how to get an MPG format clip of a twitching zebra fish to post. I really do have a house to clean and booby socks don’t just knit themselves ya know. I’ve now degenerated into trying to find ways to incorporate the word “sperm” into every post and I’m taking great delight in finding a string of tag words that look absolutely ridiculous together. It’s 34 minutes past my bedtime and Ebay has sent me email leading me to believe my absence is adding to the nation’s fiscal crisis. You’d think I would have been old enough to know better. It’s all my grandmother’s fault!
June 26, 2008 at 10:11 am |
Look mom! I got an A+! (This will come as no surprise to my former professors
)
June 26, 2008 at 10:45 am |
Welcome to the wonderful world of “Would you honestly say that in real life?”
June 26, 2008 at 10:50 am |
Oh, finding new bloggers is so much fun. I have gotten two of my friends to start blogging…and now I’m working on my husband. But then again, that would not be a good idea because who would watch the kids, do the laundry and the grocery shopping…cause I can’t do those things…I’m blogging. And procrastinating…
June 26, 2008 at 11:51 am |
HA HA! Tali got you hooked on her crack.
Glad to meet a new blogger. Oh yes, you get the title and everything now that you have TWO whole posts.
June 26, 2008 at 7:31 pm |
Don’t feel bad…I don’t blog, I just read them….how sad am I?
June 26, 2008 at 10:43 pm |
I started out as a guest commentator and have now succumbed to the peer pressure too! Just be real with your thoughts (it looks like you have a good start on this) and keep your expectations low. If you have a chance, stockpile some posts for days when you can’t think (or don’t have time) to post. Don’t put too much pressure on yourself. Welcome to the Bloggosphere!
June 27, 2008 at 3:21 am |
Woo-hoo for U!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I succombed last year at the urgings of my kids!! (And I obviously can’t spell…but you don’t get counted off in blogworld for that! )
You, my dear one are very witty!! I’m gonna go read your Mom and G-ma as soon as I feed my flamingo
June 27, 2008 at 4:08 am |
Your FIRST post has this many comments? Dang girl! I’m jealous! But hey, blogging has been around for a while, and it is VERY addicting, and satisfying, and gratifying, and all that stuff. Welcome!!!!!
June 27, 2008 at 4:44 am |
Good for you Rachel. Run while you can!
Yes Robina, I’ve made it into the big time. I’d bow to myself but I’d never get back up off the floor. And it seems people actually want me to continue writing!
Feed the flamingo? I’ve heard it called many things but that’s a new one on me.
June 27, 2008 at 6:41 am |
Gram, the other Blogger in the family, is a poet and she does have some really funny poetry on her Blog. She just started it up a month ago and we’re working on getting her to post her comments in addition to her poetry.
I, mom of Braindebris, only got funny on the Blog after my Master’s Daughter taught me how. It may have been the dippers of Jose Cuervo/Margaritas, but she has unleased a monster. Before that, I whined a lot on my Blog.
My goal now, is to make the word Humor bigger on my cloud Tag listing, than the word FLDS. Life just gets better when you Blog and you meet the nicest people too.