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So... I've had flashes of thoughts throughout the day of what to write in my blog. I should really write them down because I can't ever remember good ideas after I think of them. Anyhow, what lies before you is definitely a pretty boring idea, but I felt I needed something positive at the top of the page for a while. It's that 4 week thing... ya know.

The whole notion of coming up with blogs is strange to me. First, how can you ever know what people care about? You have virtually no feedback other than the counter (I'm watching you Jonathan!) and comments. I thought I'd write about my cancer, but honest to God I'm healthy. I have some issues every once in a while, but they're usually all in my head. What I'm left with is a rambling of whatever is bouncing around in my noggin and that's typically pretty weird.

That weird stuff is what worries me. So many people get online and use their blogs as a personal diary (making them diarrhea). They just get on here and spill their guts out for the whole world to see. Maybe that's nice for them, but c'mon... nobody else wants to see that. And it's amazing how many people do that--just click on the "next blog" at the top of this page.

I've been trying, sometimes successfully and sometimes unsuccessfully, to stay away from that diary feel. I've tried to put things together so that people can understand what this is like and so that other folks with cancer can understand the ups and downs that it puts you through, and how that's normal.

The other thing that people tend to do is try to be funny in their blog when they're very, very clearly not. I'm one of these people. I try to lighten the mood and painfully put out whatever I think is funny when I'm sitting alone unable to sleep on a weeknight. It almost never works and I'm so sorry for wasting your time by having you read it. I will, however, continue to do so.

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