It has been an interesting aspect of my life that, despite the best intentions, I have always wanted to, and usually failed to keep some sort of journal. One could say that it comes from a need to be remembered, a need to record my history; I think these are a crock. My desire to keep a journal is probably most easily traceable to Doug. I think that practically every day I heard him say Dear Journal and then have great adventures, so I thought keeping a journal was awesome.

Granted I know now that it probably had a lot more to do with being a convenient frame for story telling. It has been used in television and film many times since (e.g. As Told By Ginger, examples that are less lame because they aren’t children’s shows -_-). Regardless, I think that truthfully Doug is the origin.

My attempts at journal writing have been many and varied. The most successful was probably a compulsory one I wrote in a composition book, every day in 4th grade. In 5th grade I acquired a white book with a hot air balloon on it, and in middle school I bought a gold book with the Chinese for “Imagination” on the cover. Both of these were intended to be used as daily journals. I believe each garnered about 3 entries.

With the advent of the “web log” craze .. (we don’t use the w, e, or space anymore), I saw the fusion of my desire to keep a journal and my love for/proficiency with computers. Since then I have made several valiant attempts at getting a blog off the ground. Usually only to see them grind to a halt not long after.

You now stare at the current incarnation of these attempts, created unashamedly in hopes of providing a suitable “portfolio” for the great people over at http://www.mitadmissions.org. Like my other attempts it has also gotten off to a rough start for various reasons (varying from sheer laziness to indecision between Wordpress and Movable Type). But now it has existed for awhile and yet still it sits, largely bare of content.

Why?! I suppose it has a bit to do with laziness, a bit to do with overthinking and oververbosity in my expression, and a bit to do with not being sure anyone will care. Maybe, its just the fact then other times I’ve started a journal or blog, I’ve never ended up meeting the Beets at Honkerburger or become Quailman -_-!

But its reached the point where no more excuses shall do. It is time to try to blog legitimately, if I can. The blogger app on MIT Admissions, and I really do quite want to be one. I know that I have many, many talented competitors and frankly I expect their success over mine, but I’ve decided that I do want to do it, so I really ought to at least try.

So .. here goes, consider my lame attempts below part of the old blog. This was supposed to be the first entry in my blog, and I never got around to writing it in full form. The real attempt starts now, this is when we have that “Better Blog To Follow…”

Wish Me Luck,
~Donald Guy