My Blogging Debut Speech

Today begins a new epoch in my life.  I have become a blogger.  At this juncture, I am moved to analyze the causes leading to this revolution.  Why have I become a blogger?  I never even liked blogs before.  And I've never kept a journal for longer than three months.  Why have I suddenly decided to take on the burden of maintaining a blog?

Mainly because I have become a college student, I believe.  On the surface, it may appear that a college student would have even less time for blogging than anyone else.  Which is quite true.  But it isn't a matter of time.  It's a matter of what college does to your mind.  The intellectual strain must find relief somewhere--hence my blog.  After research papers and history exams have worn me thin, this blog shall be an escape into random musings.  What traces of brilliancy may appear here, will be G. K. Chesterton's, not mine. 

Which brings us to the question of Chesterton.  Why is my blog so heavily devoted to him?  I shall list several reasons, in the order in which they occur to me.

1.  Chesterton is the reason I survive in college.  He can be consulted beneficially on every subject.  He deserves a blog in his honor.
2.  Chesterton can provide interesting posts for me, when I am too lazy to come up with anything of my own.  (Yes, Prof. C., they will be properly referenced.)
3.  If I post Chesterton, I will actually enjoy reading my posts.
4.  If I didn't devote this blog to Chesterton, I would still end up bringing him into it anyway.  I might as well do it at the beginning officially.
5.  Because I want to.  And I shouldn't live with unfulfilled desires should I?

This concludes my presentation speech.  As my mouse arrow moves toward the "publish post" button, I say a bittersweet good-bye to my pre-blogger life, and embrace the new blogger life before me.