Jason asked me how I discovered blogging. I said, “That’s actually an interesting story!” and proceeded to tell it. Jason listened carefully then commented, “Joan, that really wasn’t very interesting at all.” I was crushed.

Here’s the story anyway, so suffer.

I get these little obsessions, which usually last just a few weeks. Last week it was Apple computers. A few months ago, it was accordions. I love accordion music. I wanted to learn how to play it and being the good modern day girl that I am, I decided to research it on the internet. So I tapped ‘accordion’ (or possibly ‘accordian’) into Google….and stumbled on the weird, eloquent world of the Accordion Guy. He’s a computer programmer in Canada and I was reading the most fantastic, Hollywood-like blog entry about his fiasco with Goth Girl. It’s the best blog entry I’ve ever read. Accordian Guy’s blog was nominated for the 2004 Bloggies. I clicked the Bloggies link and it lead this wide-eyed voyuerism virgin to a world where anyone could stand on their soapbox and be heard by other people…because amongst the millions of people who use the internet, surely one of them will be interested in your life!

I resisted making a blog for as long as I could because I suspected I would be writing in it every day. I’ve done twelve entries so far. Two weeks is almost up. Who knows, maybe this is just one of those two-week obsessions. I’ll let you know in a few weeks… or if I don’t, then I did.

🙂