“Hello world!” is the title of the nice sample blog with which Word Press provided me. It made me laugh because a blog called “Hello world!” would be highly out of character for me, improper capitalization and all.
The obligatory first post of anything is always incredibly awkward. It’s like a horrible first date– the kind where your date asks you ridiculously personal questions and trash talks his ex-girlfriend. And like, maybe if you can get past this date to the second one, you will realize he is a nice guy and go on a few more dates or maybe you will just call your friend from the bathroom and beg her to call you in five minutes with a serious “crisis” and need you by her side immediately, forcing you to abandon the date. Either way, it makes for a good story in the end.
About Me sections, which inevitably come with creating a blog, are equally as awkward yet they are unceasingly so. A blog will eventually settle into a routine and you’ll acquire steady readers and all will be well. But an About Me? That will always be looming in the realm of awkward internet social situations.
I could possibly make the mistake that pre-teens around the world are making at this very second and tell you all my hopes and dreams and everything in between. But that 1. gives you all creepy information about me and 2. is trite and boring.
Or I could be super trendy and keep it short and sweet with one obscure and irrelevant fact about myself such as, “I like Tabasco sauce.”
Or I could be even more super trendy and reference some indie but increasingly popular and significant band. In this situation, I would say something like, “I give a fuck about an Oxford Comma.” At which point all my pseudo-hip friends would be like, “Oh, we get it. She is so clever.” and my not-so-hip friends would be like, “Wow, let’s google this shit.”
Which leads me to say that I actually do give a fuck about the Oxford Comma. It make sense because like, if you have a comma between all sets in a sequence, one should also come before the and to signify that this next is not a continuation from the preceding set, but the final set to the sequence. I know it’s becoming more and more antiquated but I think when I am an English teacher one day I will impose its use on all my students because I just can’t give up on the logic of it, AP style be damned.
Anyway, I feel like this is enough to for this first horrible date. And maybe we’ll even have a go at a second, yes?
