Post the First

There is always a lot of pressure to make the first sentence catchy. If it's a school paper it needs to evince your knowledge and hard work. If it's a text to a potential significant other it needs to be witty and memorable, but come off unscripted and original. If it's a suicide note it doesn't really matter because everyone has already skipped ahead to your will anyway. So what about a blog? Damned if I know. I suppose I should consider my audience and tailor the first line towards them, but I haven't the slightest idea who will be reading this. I imagine there's an audience out there, because everyone always tells me that I have lots of opinions and good ideas but that I'm far too shy and unwilling to speak my mind. This is exactly what people need - a chance to hear what I think without me censoring and filtering it like I normally do. Ok, let's be honest. The prospect of me saying what I think without running it by people (Sam, Matt, Brett, Neil) is terrifying, both to any hopes I have of having a future unsullied by (well-founded) accusations of insulting anyone and everyone, and to anybody I know or write about who is easily offended. In all likelihood though, I'll just end up writing about the most ridiculous parts of living in DC, rhapsodizing about restaurants I've eaten at and sharing recipes, plagiarizing straight from The Onion, and insulting Sam Wright. Next time I post, I'll tell you about getting stopped by the cops for "walking while white" (huge problem these days, we can barely make it to a Starbucks and a J. Crew without getting hassled for our race) and I'll post pictures of my house on Islamic Way. Ohh...and Philip Quebe.