A conversation I had today with a potential employer made me realize just how much I've been putting this off. "This" being my path to fame and glory, i.e. a blog. And a twitter account. Here's how it went down:

me: "Yes I have a facebook. Uhh, I'm not sure, let me check...917 friends. No I don’t have a blog. No, I don’t really use twitter. No, I’ve never designed a web page before. RSS what?"

After getting off the phone I realized... I mean, I've been depriving the world of my talents, my every passing thought...good god! What have I done?!? But it was pretty peculiar that, the next day, one of my professors commented on an abstract I'd done for the class. She asked me if I blogged, and thought I could get a following. (Little does she know I often think of funny blog posts I could write in her class...)

At any rate, I felt that the universe was trying to tell me something.

I think I've put it off so long because of my intense fear of criticism. I felt too uneducated, too young, too whatever to participate. Those days are over. Because I’ve realized that no matter what you do and no matter what you say, people are going to disapprove. You can’t please ‘em all, but you certainly shouldn’t let anyone get in the way of expressing your thoughts, opinions and ideas with the world. So here I am.

Deal with it.