Le blog

So, I've decided to start a blog!  Here's why:

• I'm becoming increasingly disenchanted (once more) with Facebook.  I re-installed mine because I do like knowing all of the great, amazing things my friends and family are doing and saying, and likewise, I'd like them to know all the stuff I've got going on.  BUT.  It's really hard for me to communicate on a forum that is designed for jazzy little one liners.  I want to really TALK to people.
• I've joined the real world.  It's terrifying.  I have an 8-5 job, I work at a desk with two computer monitors, I have all sorts of office missteps.  If you know me at all, you know I like to lament these types of ordinary things to a high degree of insanity. The real confession here is that I fear my work might turn me into a robot.  I'm doing technical writing/editing for a computer software company, for the love of G.  And ever since I was in the fourth grade, I worried about what writing lifeless things would do to me.  I haven't quite found the courage to pursue my writing artistically, and I actually have found the merit of the things I do for my company, so this blog is my way to keep afloat that little voice that has always been with me while I continue to work my way to adulthood.
• My company is probably one of the best ones to work for, so I should add that I'm very lucky in that regard.
• To sort of piggyback on that last point, since leaving graduate school and joining a world where I don't have to read 500 pages of literature, literary criticism, theory, etc. a week, I've felt as though I'm (ever so slowly) losing it.  Sometimes I just drive aimlessly down streets, forget where my things are, stare blankly at books, and step on my cats' tails.  There's a lot of mindlessness going on, and I gotta preserve that brain.
• My friend Chelsea started one and I just thought it was cool.  
• Note: I do tend to abandon journals, both online and fleshy.  No hard feelings if that happens to be the case here.  I tried.

So, to provide a little more detail about me...

Here's what I look like in the morning when I have not put on any makeup, am wearing a blackhead removal strip, and am annoyed by some stupid thing my boyfriend has just said:

He's a lucky guy, am I right?  Here's my boyfriend with one of our cats:

(he's really not stupid, and he rarely annoys me.)

Here's our leonine brood:

(Hotspur, named for my Shakespearean crush from 1 Henry IV, who is just as brash and charming in feline form)

(Tomas, named for Kundera's philandering and seductive protagonist, who has always been, contrary to his namesake, a rather dignified old chap) 

(the boys together in a rare moment of brotherhood)

So, these are a few of the things I love: a spotless nose, my handsome boyfriend, and my soulful kittehs.

As far as the work thing goes, I don't want to give it the short shrift, so I'll expand a little: In addition to doing technical writing and editing, I also make fancy PPTs, work w/ vtml and IPA to teach a robot-voice how to sound more human, write about software changes, show people who've only worked in business and financing the difference between things like "i.e." and "e.g.", demonstrate how to write sentences that are not in the passive voice, and share (not in that snobbish sort of way) other fun quirks of the English language.

So, yeah.  This is me trying to be a grown up.  It's not too awful.