Tuesday, 3 March 2009

Sweet (blog) Action!

So I'm starting a blog... How exciting!
I don't really know what I want to write, in fact, this conundrum is the primary constipating force that has inhibited my sweet blog action for so many years... but I want one so I guess I just have to start writing. Anyway... below are some preliminary ideas of what I'll be writing about, and the applicable label you can search under to read previous entries of that genre.

Before I launch into it though, I just noticed I can use labels for these posts! FYI, I hereby declare that every post I write will be labelled "sweet action" because that is the exclamatory term I presently use for everything that is awesome and great. Since this blog fits said criteria, I feel it is only fitting that each entry is annotated as such.

What you can expect to see here
Here are some of the topics you can expect to indulge in here on sighblog*. Of course,
  • One idea I have for this blog - or a "pilot" idea (you like that?!) - is to share with you some of the fun and miscellaneous facts I learn in my readings of Psychology. My aim is to communicate them concisely and in such a way that people with no psychological background can understand them, without "dumbing" it down too much (which, it saddens me to say, is what I think happens all too often in pop-psychology). So that should be fun. If you like it let me know and I will continue to nurture it. If not, again let me know and I will euthanize it appropriately. This line of sentiment applies to all the things I write about on here actually. [LABEL FOR THESE POSTS: Psychology]
  • Because I am a devout fan of vocabularic prowess, am also going to introduce you to some sweet action words and phrases that I like to use (some invented, some not) which I encourage you to weave into your own conversational escapades. If you do so, I expect you will gain friends, respect from your enemies and a generally more enriched life. These phrases will be emboldened in-text and explained in separate, brief posts. [LABEL FOR THESE POSTS: Vocabularic Prowess]
  • Sometimes I am like totes in love with stuff or get obsessed with it, or think it's awesome (Note that stuff includes objects, people, ideas, fetishes etc). I need some space to rant about these things and sing their praises! [LABEL FOR THESE POSTS: Fangirl Funtimes]
  • I'm a hypochondriac! Flipping out and anxiety-laden verbal diarrhoea is just one of the symptoms you can look forward to copping from me here. Self-indulgent? That's what blogs are all about! 'nuf said. [LABEL FOR THESE POSTS: Hypochondria]

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Anyway, I feel like I've written enough for a first post... In closing (or should I say opening! as this post marks the beginning of a delicious new adventure) I invite you to subscribe, comment and tell your friends. This blog needs an active audience (i.e. you) to survive!

* sighblog is short for "starts with a sigh..." the official name of my blog, and what I will be referring to it as, in a shorthand way.
For those of you not clued up enough to figure out why I have named it so; it's because I love Psychology... in fact, I'm doing my PhD in it! As testament to the solid, world-framing knowledge it has lent me over the years and to much of my ingenious, pure quality blog content inspired by same - (yet acknowledging that sometimes Psychology is a pathetic rigid, positivistic approach to problems that it just can't solve) the title is a reference to the pertinent adage:
Psychology starts with a sigh and ends with an oh-gee-why?

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