Blogs

Okay the day has finally arrived, I started a blog page. Or what I like to refer to as - My Space for grown-ups. One day my friend (name withheld to protect the innocent) said, "When are you going to make a blog page so I can stalk you?" I replied, "Can't you just come over to my house?"

While this blogging thing is a bit exciting, I would still rather read other people's blogs and learn about other people's lives, then share boring bits of my own. I am fascinated with other people's lives, people I don't know. So I guess that would make me a 'blog stalker' too.

As some of you are aware, I am a big believer in the dictionary. If a word is not in the dictionary, then it is not a "real word". It has no context and cannot be taken seriously. I decided to look up the word blog. Sure enough here it is:

Main Entry:
blog
Pronunciation:
\ˈblȯg, ˈbläg\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
short for Weblog
Date:
1999
: a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer; also : the contents of such a site
— blog·ger noun
— blog·ging noun

Typically I like to go off of what is published in the most recent paper copy of the dictionary and not what is online. But, I think for this situation and in honor of trying to be 'paperless', I will accept the online definition. Blog has been a "real word" since 1999, where have I been? I could have been officially blogging the past 9 years of my life.