Friday, May 21, 2010

Day One

Today I begin this blog, a venue in which I do not believe. I say I don't believe in something whenever

a) I don't know how to do it

b) It scares me

c) It forces me to change a long-standing belief or way of doing something

d) It means that material reality is eclipsed by screen culture

The irony will be – I can see it clearly already – that my blog (dear God, already I’m saying “My blog”) will begin to obsess me in a matter of minutes. Possibly this is why I’ve avoided one for so long. Just like I’m not on Facebook, and do not have the Internet in my house – because once you’ve invited these things in, just like cars and cellular phones, there is no going back; in a week you cannot remember what your life was like before.

This blog is an assignment for a course in Information Technology. A required course. A required course that daunts me, even while I've held such job titles as IT Prject Coordinator. When I don’t know what I’m doing I procrastinate. This has harmed me over the years, as you might imagine. So, I’m here now, nearly the 11th hour, and I’m open – honest.