Book Smeller

So, this is blog number one. I am not expecting anyone to be extremely interested in my blog. I don't travel across the globe, run a big business, write famous novels, or do anything particularly spectacular. I am a college freshman with high hopes of eventually working for a publishing company in Ireland. How am I going to make time for a blog like this? I don't really know the answer to that question, but then again, I don't seem to know the answer to many questions right now.

I was inspired to start blogging after seeing Julie and Julia...probably me and about five thousand other women (or men, no sexism in this blog). As a future writer (I don't really believe that I can call myself a writer just yet), I thought that this would be a great way to get all of the things in my head out, perhaps making room for those math notes I need to remember for Wednesday...or maybe it's just the fact that the only journal I currently own reminds me of a time when I wasn't questioning how I got here.

You may be wondering how I came up with the name for my blog. Well, I wish that I could come up with some fantastically creative story, like...I looked out the window, saw a bird fluttering by, and suddenly I remembered when I was a little girl...blah blahblah. I was basically scanning my dorm room for ideas, when my eye caught on the printed ticketmaster ticket for the U2 concert I attended which was pinned to my bulletin board. At the top of the ticket it says, "This is your ticket." I repeated that to myself. This is your ticket. I liked it, and it clicked.

I have told many people how sad I think it is that college has just become a ticket to ride. (Gotcha all singing The Beatles now) A ticket to enter the worldwide job market. Maybe I will just quit and go be a gypsy. I really like things that jingle. Big earrings, bells on skirts. I could go to France and find the hunchback, and we will fall in love and live in a belltower. -->This is your brain on college. Be afraid.

That's the end for this post. I will come up with a more definitive idea of where this blog is going exactly, because I don't really think tales of my life are going to attract many readers. But who knows? The world gets lonely sometimes. I know that I get lonely. I hope that my future blogs will keep someone company, like a cup of cocoa on a chilly fall day, or the smell of an old book.

-Lauren