At 5' 5'' in the Editorial Column we have....

This first post will serve as an introduction to my blog and to me. I feel it only fair to warn you that I have opinion and I am not afraid to share it. This is, in fact, the very problem that keeps me from pursuing a career in anything remotely related to my college degree. When I majored in Journalism, I had high hopes. Dreams of a column in a famous music magazine, my own radio show, fame, fortune, you get the picture. What I failed to realize (as many young college students do) is that in order to obtain these things, I would first have to work in menial, low-paying, thankless jobs at little newspapers and radio stations, slowly working my way up the ladder of notoriety and success. While in theory I am not against these things, I have a few problems actually practicing them.

The most important problem, which I touched on earlier, is my opinionated nature. In journalism, most newspapers are looking for fair, balanced, non-biased, objective (the list of adjectives could go forever) articles. I am a very talented writer....of editorial pieces...my talent does not run to hard news. Woodward and Bernstein I am not.

My second major problem with the aforementioned menial jobs is, to be frank, money. If you are alive (and since you are reading this, I assume you to be) you cannot be unaware of the economic problems facing pretty much everyone on the planet. I, sadly, am not a celebrity and therefore have just as many bills to pay as every other person. My biggest debt is my college education that I am not even using...gee dad, so glad I listened to you when you said this was an investment in my future.

My third problem, and the least important, is that I lack a virtue known to most as patience. I just don't want to wait to earn my opinion column, I want to write it now.
When I am not at my day job, I read. Books, magazines, newspapers, and blogs. I said myself, "Self, everyone has a blog, you can too. Maybe no one will read it, but that's okay, because you can write whatever you want." And I was convinced. Plus, despite what my younger, teenage brother says, I find my self, at the very least, slightly amusing. If I can bring a smile to a person's face, what more could I ask? Besides a million dollars that is.

In this, my first post, I want to share with you, my readers, some pertinent statistics regarding my life. I am 23 years old, female, and currently single. I live and work in Southwest Michigan and went to school at Grand Valley State University. I absolutely love listening to music, reading, watching movies, and spending time with my family.

Anyone who reads this blog is welcome to comment, but I do ask that it be respectful. This will be a place where I speak my opinions freely. If you don't agree with me, that's okay. If you call me names, that's not okay. I feel like that is a fairly easy rule to follow.

And so, gentle reader, I bid you adieu until next I post, and wish you all many happy returns.