In a Blog Fog

One of my girlfriends and I have recently been talking about blogs... we both work in an office that sometimes throws a lot of dead time our way, which has made both of us take an interest in other people's stories and ideas. You know how it is: you start reading one blog, you click on a link to another... before you know it, you're reading 15 different blogs at one given time. You find yourself feeling deprived if your favorite blogger doesn't post for a few days- or you feel cheated if your favorite political blogger doesn't report on what you felt was the most insane news of the year.

I started to become more interested in creating my own blog when I first moved to the city, but never felt like I had anything interesting to say-- that was before I started reading other people's blogs and became intrigued by a complete stranger's life. My life is far from crazy and/or interesting, but there is nothing simple about it. Like most New Yorkers, I am one who was born and raised in a different zip code/time zone, but flocked straight from college to the Big Apple to "chase my dreams." I have several friends and acquaintances dotted across the country, which got me to thinking: Is this the new way of keeping people up to date?

Or am I just being slightly pretentious to think someone might care...?