It Has Begun

... What has begun? I dunno. This blog, I guess. I still need to come up with a theme. My roommate suggested the "[h]ypocrisy and stupidity in the movie ratings system," but I can't say I'm as passionate on that subject as he is, and I doubt I could fill my one-a-week quota talking about that.

I'm still up in the air.

As part of the assignment (er, I forgot to mention--this is technically a school blog, but I'll try to keep that particular detail as transparent as possible), it was suggested I choose a subject I can "geek out over" (paraphrase). While I have a quarter-million things that geek me out, I'm not sure what I could write a weekly post on.

Lately, I've been watching far more anime than is really healthy. In spite of that, there are a hundred thousand anime blogs already out there, and perhaps the only unique thing I could contribute would be show reviews, but I keep those to anidb (where they'll get, you know, exposure). (Maybe I could blog about run-on sentences.)

I'm also a bookworm. I currently control three of the four dorm-standard bookshelves in my suite, and they're still overflowing.

I might do a writing blog. The semester does coincide with NaNoWriMo 2008, which I will be attempting--for the third time (for a rather dry, lackluster account of my NaNoWriMo 2007 failure, click here). And it would fit in with the (somewhat arbitrary) heading I threw together. Maybe a combination of interesting words (like insalubrious!), my personal writing experience, creative writing exercises, rants on irritating grammar mistakes (or some of the utterly ridiculous rules). Perhaps. I'll think on it.

Another option--to be more technically oriented--would be a programming blog. However, while programming itself may be fun, I'm already thinking it'd make a frightfully boring blog (for both reader and writer).

Well, who knows? I'll decide on a theme and hopefully there'll be something interesting for next time.