Well, lets see how this goes.

I've never blogged before, so I don't really know what I'm doing.  I've never even been able to update a journal regularly enough to actually deem it a "diary".  All my attempts would be better deemed "That blank notebook I wrote in once and then stashed away so that no one would find it, and then myself did not find until a year later when I once again wrote one entry and hid it again".  But somehow run-on sentences just don't have the same labeling appeal as "diary".  Which now brings me here to a blog, stepping into the 21st century.  Blogs are, apparently, the cool new diaries.  Instead of the old cliched, pink-and-ruffly notebooks with crappy plastic locks where little girls would write down secret crushes, blogs seem to be mostly for the purpose of sharing thoughts, not hiding them.  I myself have gotten hooked on quite a few good blogs, mostly on cooking and travel, although at this point the fine line between amateur blog and professional website seems to have blurred a bit, to the point where it is difficult to exclusively define a site as a "blog".

I have always been wary of writing my own blog, mostly because I'm pretty sure no one cares about what I ate for dinner or the fact that I keep worrying about next year and The Future, complete with its looming unemployment and uncertainty.  Maybe it's my love of reading other blogs that inspired me to write my own.  Maybe I can trace my blog-quest back to the fateful day I got snowed in with friends watching "Julie and Julia", and realized that I too love to cook but would most likely run away screaming if I ever had to boil live lobsters.  (Luckily, being a vegetarian, I never have to worry about that).  All the successful blogs I  have come across seem to have themes and specific topics they focus on.  I am not going to do that, so from the start I plan on having an unsuccessful blog.  I'm okay with this.  Most of the world has much more interesting stories, more hardships, and more delicious food than I will ever experience, have, or create.  There must be a million amateur blogs out there like mine with equally mediocre people writing about equally mediocre happenings, and I don't expect mine to get any more attention than any of theirs.  I know for a FACT that there has to be tons of mediocrity out there by the fact that it took me 5 minutes to come up with a URL that wasn't already taken.  Apparently there are plenty of other Rachels out there who also chose to name their blogs "Musings", keeping the entire theme of the blog bland, open-ended, and non-committed. 

So here it is.  My first blog posting.  I'm already rambling and I haven't even decided to write about anything yet.  Maybe my theme should just be "undetermined", because then I can still write about whatever I want and have it fall under a specific, one word theme.  Undetermined seems to fit my life quite well at the moment anyway, considering that I graduate from college in 4 months and after that have absolutely no idea where I'll be or what I'll be doing.  Ok, excellent, a theme.  My undecided blog.