A theme, it appears.

I think for now I'm going to use this as a testing ground for my "put down what's in my head" project- kind of a Dromeda 101, to borrow a phrase from Juldea. Oddly enough, a lot of the stuff that was in my head and kicking to get out...and the stuff that was driving me to think about writing something like this...a lot of that found its own way out by talking to Kevin and Mike and Holly and generally not caring a whole lot about making sure that other people were doing most of the talking.

In general, it was stuff that's been well-gone-over. Things like why I would go to a different college if I could do it over again, choose a different major, hang out with different friends, that kind of thing. But I have learned something in the process- I enjoy conversations more if I can learn something from them along the way. It doesn't have to necessarily always be the case- I enjoy a good session of just superficiality and re-establishing common interests by way of quoting and rehashing bits and pieces, but I enjoy it more in general if it's more than that. Example: Talking about sci-fi books is good, but talking about the sociopolitical climate that brings about that book is better. Talking about military specs is good, talking about military tactics and what brought about the need for that conflict is better. Talking about anime is good, but giving your own take on a character is better. A lot of what I do is done for social reasons (I don't particularly like doing things on my own where there would be a lot of people I don't know), but maybe more is done for the pursuit of knowledge and learning. My thing for infogathering is to expand my base so I can build more upon it, or stretch it out to further horizons or give new depth to established loci of knowledge.

I probably sound really pretentious about this- but...here I am, I guess. I'm probably more 'what you know' than 'who you know', because my main focus isn't other people- it's knowledge. And the more and broad-reaching, the better.

So that's my first 'real' blog post. Maybe it should be retitled What Drives Me. There'll be more, almost certainly- a lot of emo wangsting about social awkward and ick, and probably some random stuff about things I like (like self-medicating with spicy pho or ramen when feeling sick), but...this can start it.