I have tried keeping a blog before, and it simply did not work because 1) I would always forget about it, and 2) I had other things to do anyway, like school and work and writing other things. However, I think I can make it work this time, and there are a few reasons for this. I like the Top Ten format, so we're going to go with that:
10) It's easier for me to blog when I have free time, as it is with everyone. I have a lot of free time this summer, being only employed during the day and having a complete lack of social life. Therefore I have a lot of free time in which to blog.
9) I really honestly do like to write. That's what I do in my free time anyway. I write stories and occasionally poetry. Poetry comes more often when I'm super traumatized by something or in love with someone and stuff. But I digress: I will work on this one the way I would a story.
8) I plan to add this one to Facebook and update the blog posts to Facebook, so I will feel OBLIGATED to post regularly- it's like writing a status, but longer.
7) I feel a lot more free to nerd about here because I know less people will read this than they will my Facebook posts anyway.
6) I waste too much time on Pinterest and Tumblr and it really needs to stop... I had a life once... this, believe it or not, should help. I have to actually DO things to blog about them, right? Well, actually, don't answer that question.
5) Other people do it, so why can't I?
4) I like the idea of a blog one day becoming my resume, so look out world, here's my resume.
3) I like the idea of blogging in general.
2) Right now it is eleven thirty at night, and I have nothing to do for the next half hour, even though I should be getting in the shower, so why not make a blog? That takes about half an hour, right?
And finally, 1) I like to let people know what's going on with me, but since I have no life and can't tell them in person, blogging is the way to go. :D
Those are my reasons. Are they not magnificent?
Also, I should probably explain about the title. "With Jam and Bread." It is the lyric of the well-known song "Do-Re-Mi" from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music. I have no particular fondness for this musical; in fact, I can think of several that I like better, soon to be the object of another blog post, but I was thinking and thinking and thinking of something witty, yet philosophical, for the blog title.
I wanted to use a book title like my friend L, who named her blog "Pride and Narratives" (HOW WITTY IS THAT, RIGHT?) but I thought, no, that would be cheating! So naturally, I stole a song. But I wanted a bit of a song that meant something, and I was thinking, something deep, something philosophical, and my brain goes, "Tea, I drink with jam and bread!" and I go, "Bingo! It addresses several things I like at once!"
Firstly there is food, which is always a very, very, very, very good thing to address.
Secondly there is a lyric from a musical, and one by Rodgers and Hammerstein at that, and they wrote the best musicals as we all know.
Thirdly, it does in fact form a philosophy- I don't drink tea, and it has nothing to do with tea, but with life- which on the whole is a wholesome, healthy, good thing, like bread, but every now and then we get a little treat with our bread, like jam.
Or we get the kind of bread that has twelve different kinds of grains that they didn't bother putting through the wheat mill, no, they'll just stick it right into the bread, because EVERYONE just wants to bite down into a lovely ham-and-cheese sandwich and go, "OH MY GOODNESS ME I THINK I JUST BROKE A TOOTH ON A BONE OR A ROCK OR SOMETHING," but it turns out to be a grain of wheat. Bread like that bothers me greatly, because while it may be healthy and good for you and will help you fight cancer and live longer and become as close to immortal as humans can get, it is also disgusting and makes no sense to my palate, which is very sensitive upon the issue of texture.
That was a digression and a rant. I do that periodically. But I have had this argument with my mother too often. For some reason, she LIKES this bread with little chunky hard things in it. Chunky is a word that should only apply to ice cream, peanut butter, and beef stew. Not bread.
But I guess that bread is like the bad things in life. It may have disgusting seeds in it, but you can still eat it. It won't kill you. Unless the seeds go down your windpipe and you choke to death, but that's a very remote possibility.
No, overall, bread is good. There's white bread, which is so cheap and disgusting that you know it's more or less recycled carbohydrate waste. There's Italian bread, which is good for sandwiches and toast and just about everything. Wheat bread, but without the seeds, is healthy and delicious. French bread, which is for special occasions. Rolls, which as their name imply, may have you rolling through life if you eat too many. And every now and then, you need a spoonful of jam for your bread.
The more I read the things you write, the more I realize that we're related.
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