Why not?

I figure I'd give this blogging thing a try. All the cool kids seem to be doing it. I'm going to try to keep my real name out of it for as long as possible, but I don't think that will work very well. I'd just prefer to not have it pop up when people search for me.

Anyway, I've got a lot going on these days, not to mention the fact that I can be kind of an unpleasant person to be around, meaning that I don't have a plethora of friends (though I'm not a friendless hermit, as Matt would say), so it's a good place to share some things happening with me without making everyone else deal with them.

I'm not quite sure what I'll talk about here. For the most part, I'm working through my depression, though the subject will inevitably come up from time to time because it's an important subject and has helped shaped me as I am. I'm also working on improving my overall physical and mental health. I'm trying to improve my diet, my activity, and my weight (forever a struggle), so this is as good a place as any to document that. I work full-time at a job that I don't like very much but it's at a university, so I'm going to grad school for almost nothing, which makes the job worthwhile. I'm getting a master's degree in strategic public relations, so that I can hopefully be a press secretary on the Hill -- follow in the footsteps of C.J. Cregg (the blog title is a West Wing allusion).

So yeah, I guess we'll see what happens. I don't really know how to use these "technologies" that the kids use these days, but I'm sure I'll get better with time.

M