The Blog That Ate Brian

Sometime things start out as a simple idea and then take on a life of their own. This blog is one of those things. When I started this last December, it sounded pretty simple. I would write something every day. I would try to make it funny, and use this forum to air my views and grievances with reckless abandon. What the hell was I thinking?

Nothing is simple with me. I obsess over every decision I make. Early in this process I decided that five days a week would be fine. Then in a move of complete insanity, I put a self imposed length on my posts. Nobody asked me to make sure the blog was so many words long. I'm not some paid columnist for a large daily paper. I don't even know how many folks read this, but in my mind it had to be a certain length. Sometimes I'm sure it would be better to err on the side of brevity, maybe like today, but still I try to reach my self imposed minimum. I'm completely nuts.

Now this thing owns me. People ask about the blog, I try to come up with an idea everyday for the blog, I feel inadequate if I miss a blog, (yesterday I had an excuse) and some days I fear the blog? Why do it? Who knows? It's a weird psychological thing. I started this and now I have to stick with it. Sometimes I get a strange sense of pride that I am able to put up something. Maybe in the future I'll cut back to a few times a week, because let's face it, sometimes I'm just filling space. Ta-Da....mission accomplished.

Try to stay up tomorrow night and listen to the big show on WGN. We're interviewing an 18 year old kid who finished college in a year. I'm going to try real hard not to call him a nerd, or use the word nerd at all. That's why I put it here. Hopefully it's out of my system. Have a great weekend...Brian