Welcome and Introduction

Hi, my name is Rachel. I'm a college student, an avid reader of Ted Dekker, and a Doctor Who fanatic. And I really, really, didn't want a blog.

I've blogged before, enough to know that blogs are so high-maintenance. You feel obligated to blog at least once a week (like everyone else does), and you also feel like nobody cares about what you're writing, 'cause there's all those other blogs out there written by all those other people who have lives and thoughts far more interesting than yours. "Why bother?" you begin to ask yourself. "Nobody's going to read it anyway."

Wrong.

Why do we blog? Or, more importantly, why do I blog? (Well, if you want to get technical, I should probably ask, "Why did I blog before?" or "Why am I blogging now?") The answer is, not for that random person in China, or your friend across the street, or that creepy guy in New Jersey who may happen to stumble on your page.

I'm blogging for me. Kinda like a high-tech (much more public) version of a journal. Innermost feelings may not go here, but the little things, the look-what-I-did-todays and here-are-my-thoughts that would get lost in this crazy old brain of mine by tomorrow morning now get preserved, like an organ pickling in a jar in a mad scientist's lab. It may smell funny later, but it'll still be there.

So that's why I'm blogging. Not for sharing (though I may do that), not for philosophizing (though I may do that), and most definitely not for the whole wide world to read and think "Oh, she's good," or "What a lunatic." It's for me, plain and simple. I'll just... let you in.

--Rachel

The Doctor: You two, we're at the end of the universe. Okay?! Right at the edge of knowledge itself! And you're busy . . . blogging!!