Jan. 7 First Blog Entry

When I first read this assignment I told my roomate and he laughed because he has noted how nerdy I had become with my xanga-ing experience over the last few months. Actually, before I came to Stanford, I had never heard of a xanga or a blog or whatnot before. It was a friend in my dorm who had a link to her xanga site on her AIM profile that first introduced me to the wonderful world of blogs. At first, I simply read hers. One night I was pretending to study for chem and I decided to start my own. One of my problems has always been that I'll tell just about anyone what's going on with my life. Well with xanga, I began to write about anything that was stressing me at the time (whether it was my roomates, school, or exgirlfriend) without keeping much personal. I really said just about anything. My initial view of bloggers was one of "nerdiness" but I soon become absorbed in this world. I kept posting, joined blogrings from Stanford and Tampa, read others. Actually, one really interesting thing about my xanga that has arisen is my incredible curiosity with who reads it. I added a site meter to mine where I can see how many people read it as well as what domain they are using. I think it just adds to the nerdiness, but by now I can pretty much get a good estimate on who exactly is reading my site. It's actually interesting some of the people who regularly read mine. Another thing I found myself doing was writing novels instead of simple posts. A friend of mine cut and pasted a few of my entries into Word to get a word count. Some approached 3000 words. I had trouble writing 2000 word essays for class, but I could churn out a paper about what was on my mind at any given second. I've gotten better at keeping them short though. When I'm at home, I'll usually just recount the day or go on if I'm angry or sad. Like I said, I pretty much say anything that's on my mind. Randomly reading other people's blogs kind of weirds me out, but I do read a few people's regularly. On xanga, I can suscribe to my friends' blogs and read them all from one page. I'm not sure how all this fits into eRhetorics yet because I'm not sure what eRhetorics is yet, but I can say that I'm an active blogger. For some reason the words just flow when I'm typing on one.