Blog: Take 5

My blogs have evolved with my life. The format of my first online journal changed on a weekly basis. I guess I didn't have much of a grasp on "blogging" back then. I guess I didn't have much of a grasp on who I was, either.

My second blog, and honestly my first real blog, was called Lost in Waco. Cheery, huh? The posts varied from silly to snarky to almost embittered. But give me a break -- I lived in Waco, Texas, otherwise known as "that town where David Koresh and his crazy cult got burned to death by the U.S. Government."

But as I rounded out my second year at Baylor University (and what a painful year it was), I preceded to set up shop at Spoiled American Brat. I wasn't just mad at Baylor anymore, I was mad at the whole country! So I still blogged with attitude, but by this time I had a bigger perspective and more importantly, I had a hunch I'd be moving to Austin and attending the University of Texas soon... because as anxious as I was about how out of place I felt at Baylor, I accepted that year as a year of transition. And somehow that made everything easier.

Blog me sideways, that's a lot of blogging. And it doesn't end there!

After my real-life move to Austin, I moved my blog, again, to Laura's Badass Blog. Boring title really, no theme. Appropriate, I suppose. I haven't really felt there has been a theme to my life these past few years. Maybe this is because I finally made it to the light at the end of the dark, dreary Baptist tunnel and that was all that really mattered.

But now, I get this feeling that change is coming again... some good, some not so good. Fuck: I'm graduating from college in less than a year! People I went to high school with are getting married! My dad has a terminal brain tumor! All those things I used to think were so far off in the distance, like a career and well, let's not even mention other grownup events and obligations and expectations, are like... well, not so far off in the distance anymore.

So, I decided I needed a new blog, a blog that has more intention. Because I'm more intentioned. I don't think this thing will win a battle of the blogs or anything like that but change is good, sometimes.

This was the runner-up, minus photoshopping, to Crazy Lil Thing (Led Zeppelin Song + Annie Hall Quote = Me). Did I pick the wrong one?

Well, it doesn't really matter. I've already put the blog on the fire, so grab a chair, sit down, and relax.