hello. welcome.

I have a blog.

Despite my snotty reply to Bryan when he asked if I would ever have a blog (“I did start a blog... except I call it a journal and it doesn't have a url and I'm the only one who reads it, but sometimes I post comments to make myself feel better. also I ‘upload’ pictures using my pen... then it becomes a webcomic.”) and then, not even 3 seconds later, here I am… blogging. So Bryan has retribution and I am not nearly as cool and aloof as I would like to be.

So yes. The title, purpose, and um… rules, so to speak. I am, unfortunately, a hopeless narcissist. In my defense, I kind of like to think that we are all of us narcissists, but that may just be me projecting. I think blogging is sort of narcissistic. Hey look at me and read what I have done! I’m sorry for blogging and for being self absorbed.

(I’m not really sorry)

(but I sort of wish I was which is almost the same thing)

In case you were wondering..............
The curious part comes from the fact that I have always like the word, something I described once to a coworker named Franz- who, incidentally, I still think I should have been best friends with growing up. I think it would have been good for both of us. I hold a grudge against whatever force it was the stopped that from happening. Anyway, I showed him a fantastic blog called curiousexpeditions and was saying that I like the word curious. He asked if I liked the word inquisitive too.

Inquisitive is ok. I like inquisitive, but it implies so much more academic of an approach, doesn’t it? Inquisitive sees an electric socket for the first time and asks what it is, looks up how it works. Curious sticks a fork in it to see what happens. Incidentally, I actually did this once, when I was old enough to know better, at least 7 I think. We were getting the light switches fixed by the stairs at our old house and the electrician left to get some water or something just as I walked down the stairs. Finding myself alone with bare wires and having heard that you shouldn’t touch them “because I said so” I did something potentially disasterous but, I think, totally natural- I touched one. It hurt. Really badly. I had a tiny burn on my finger that I didn’t show anybody and I have never told anyone that story until now, which should tell you something about the dangers of blogging.

Inquisitive go on a tour of a European city. Curious goes to Switzerland, picks a direction and walks in it until we find a little village having their annual village yard sale where we end up buying a guitar and sneaking it onto airplanes to get it back.

If someone says, “this smells bad.” Inquisitive asks what it is. Curious grabs it and sniffs too, says, “oh gross!” and then asks what it is.

Curious tends to get in trouble, but it’s a lot more fun that way. And I am enticed and beckoned by the call of adventure and sit enraptured at the feet of all things interesting, particularly stories- which hold such a strong allure for me that I can say with conviction that stories are one of the greatest things in the world.

Inquisitive sifts through information to find what’s important and relevant. Curious delights in all information and is insatiable, and adventurous, and delves deeper, and looks at trees and rocks and wonders about everything and allows itself to be amazed. It brings up images of Alice in Wonderland, and it often gets in trouble or lost, because it is hungry and willing try things and look at things and listen to things and I like to think that I am particularly curious about people. Humans. And thus, my curious, narcissistic life among humans.

Finally, I am a walking dichotomy of hugely vain and wildly insecure about my writing. Be nice, mostly because it’s totally ok to wage war against you if you aren’t (I’m in human rights and international politics, I know these things), and I haven’t the slightest qualm about hiring a hit man to kick you in the shins. Maybe I’ll grade it so you can skip to the good parts. Maybe I won’t. Finally I want you to laugh because I love you and I love when you laugh.




update:
tl;dr version: hi!