No Hugging, No Learning

Well hello. I have a feeling that I am either going to update this faithfully, or totally slack off, because those are really the only 2 choices I make on anything in my life (as my parents, friends, employers, dates, etc. can attest.) I am someone who prefers to have most choices made for me, and when I do have to make a choice, I lie as few options as possible. My good friend G.J. and I joke that we want to own a restaurant where the wait-staff decides for you what you are going to eat. I think that's one of the reasons that having a personal shopper really appeals to me; well, that and the laziness of course.

Though I have arrived late to the Blogging game, I have been an avid reader of blogs on and off for several years. I like the idea of voyeuristically reading about other peoples' lives, no matter how mundane they seem to be. I can't promise that mine will be all that exciting, because frankly my life isn't that interesting. I am a 26 year old guy that works at an investment bank and lives in Chicago. I am single, and sort of re-entering the dating scene after an almost two year relationship with M.B. So if you are interested in reading about my dating misadventures, neuroses, self-induced crises, Machiavellian struggles at the office, and home life with my roomate Ms. H.I. and our 3 cats (which will, likely, largely entail her yelling at me for being a slob), then perhaps I have something to offer. I cannot really say what shape this blog space will take; I would guess that it will alternate between updates on my life, my personal thoughts and opinions (tentatively titled "This Things I Believe), and hopefully some slams against my enemies. Well I am kidding about the last one, though part of me wishes I had a nemesis that I could plot against. I have been trying to put together a personal Enemies List, a la Richard Nixon. We shall see how that turns out.

Ok I will try to not make this first post too long, since I don't know how long the average attention span is. So the next thing on my mind is about the word Blog itself. Is it just me, or is that a really horrible-sounding work. To me, it brings up the imagery of "bog", which would be muddy, wet, full of feld trees, tons of misquitos, etc. Also similar to the word "blah"; dull, dreary, depressing. Last is the world of Onomatopoeia (the spelling of which I had a devil of a time finding); onomatopoeia is a word that imitates the sound it represents such as: splash, wow, gush, kerplunk, etc.  In that context, "blog" is almost like the sound one makes when throwing up. Well to me anyway.

Well ok, that is my first post. I hope you will check back in to see what is on my mind, and I promise to make an effort to keep you informed of the events or nonevents of my life.

-P.B.S. (Ben)