the beginning

If someone was able to actually track my thoughts and what I do day to day, I'm sure they'd think I was a mental patient. I started my *work* day (I do work, though the sheer volume of email crap I produce makes people think I don't) by signing up for the nanowriting challenge. Unable to do anything by halves, I set out to get in touch with others participating in it. Only to find that apparently half the web world is participating AND there is this *new* blogging that I had no idea about. Of course, I then had to have my very own blog page. Going along with my resolution this week to do more work at work and drink less coffee, I've spent my morning barely working and glugging coffee. The coffee has done much to ruin my concentration and little to keep me lucid.

As to what I'm going to use this place for--I should back up and introduce myself since I did make this thing public (not that I can imagine these contents are going to interest the general public). Don't know how long that will last. My online name is Wyethia. I'm a (*ACK*--I have to say this now--my birthday was at the beginning of October) 30 yr old woman that resides in California. I'm a bit obessive about hobbies--I collect hobbies with the same passion most reserve for contributing to their one hobby. I feel I'm not quite as alone in this though--I've met enough nutty people that overlap in hobbies online to satisfy my faint desire to be within the society accepted range "Normal". Current hobbies include writing poetry, backpacking, disc golf, snakes, tarantulas, writing, journaling, dog training, pilates/ yoga, vegetarian cooking, being a wife (this is a hobby I dabble in rather than work at full-time), rabid reading, and biology (not quite sure that belongs as a hobby as it is my current career choice, but I work only takes up part of my life).

Anyway, I thought I'd use this space to collect my posts that I write daily to various groups. Every once in awhile I search out old posts and I'm amazed at how prolific I am (sporatically) and I'd love to keep some of that stuff for later. I'm not organised enough to print all that crap out--been there, done that--waste of space. So, for now, I'll paste in pertinent posts from various email groups (my writing only) that I may want to keep for later. I may also use this to track story/poem ideas--not sure about that.   ¶ 2:51 PM