How to write an introduction:
Step 1: Offer a form of salutation (in your language of
choice) followed by your name and why your presence is worth knowing. Who are you?
Step 2: Delete first sentence. It sounds like every other
introduction you’ve ever heard or read in the past 10+ years. Come on. You
want to be cute. You want to be original. Get it together.
Step 3: Think long and hard about how you want to present
yourself. This isn’t your middle school –teen angst diary. This is the big league.
Step 4: Write a step-by-step how-to list and hope with all
your might that those you are introducing yourself to find you clever and
charming
Step 5: Blog about it.
Step 6: Brace yourself.
As a journalism major, I should find it easy to present
myself to others in a fun, creative way. And yet here I am, hour after hour at
my university’s local coffee shop, hitting my “delete” button much more
frequently than I had expected. How do I find an interesting way to tell you something
as simple as “my name is Alessandra?”
Hmm, not too shabby.
In other news, I would like to
informally but cordially welcome you to my personal blog; or my measly attempts
to write down my thoughts, feelings, and emotions while trying to make sense of
the crazy world around me, keep you entertained, and hopefully make a valid
point.
Sounds crazy, no? Absolutely. But what is life if not a
little crazy?
Here are some other crazy (not really) things I would like
for you lovely people to know.
I am a Houstonian, studying in Austin, with a rather
concerning addiction for all things caffeinated and the high hopes of eventually moving to
the big apple. I am a proud theater geek and the most willing shopping buddy
you will ever meet. I do not enjoy long walks on the beach. Honestly, I’d rather
lie down like a potato while someone feeds me taquitos.
Up until now, I have been blogging privately – opening up
blank page after blank page, testing the waters to see if my rants were at all
worth reading. The testing is over my friends. It is time to take the plunge.
So hopefully you found this entertaining enough to check in
every few days and see what insanity I come up with. If you enjoy university
life, all things art/music/fashion/theater, sassy rants, or simply have nothing
else to do, come on down! Volunteer as tribute! Be the chosen one! As the
wonderful Dr. Seuss puts it, let’s fall in mutual weirdness and call it love!
(Or just likeness, that works too. I don’t want to rush
things.)
Stay fabulous, my fellow humans.
Xoxo,
Ale
