It all started with a seemingly innocuous New York Times article, clipped by my terribly proud mother because it's "law-related" and might "give you something to talk about in interviews." The article in question discussed the "Anonymous Lawyer," now revealed to be the not-so-anonymous Jeremy Blachman, and the phenomenon of "blawgs" in general. Fascinated, and having not really heard of "blawgs" before, I checked out the website. And promptly lost three hours of otherwise billable time by reading, in a hypnotic state, every single post. And from there, discovered new and even better blog-addiction fodder at Stay of Execution. Which I again read from cover to cover (or whatever the internet equivalent of that), and loved. More thoughts on my deep admiration of that blog and its author (whom I don't actually know, but feel like I do. Hmm, a potential drawback to this whole blogging thing -- faceless strangers thinking they've got my number. Then again, I think I'm just hoping now that there are people out there who actually read this at some point. Let's not get ahead of the game.)
Anyway, as I was reading, I was really excited by the idea of being able to post the snippets of things I'm thinking about during the day, which normally just don't get said and so then end up making me feel totally disconnected from this place I'm in, and hopefully sparking some conversation from them -- although sometimes, it's enough of a relief just to actually get the thought out. So. That's pretty much my motivation here -- the freedom to randomly babble about subjects both interesting and inane somewhere outside my head.
I have no idea what direction this blog will take, though. As you may have already guessed, I'm a lawyer, albeit a "baby lawyer," seeing as I just graduated and passed the bar and all that fun stuff this summer/fall. And while I'm pretty fascinated with all the possibilities, experiences and thoughts being an actual member of the legal profession brings up, I hestitate to plan a "blawg," just because I don't think I'm enough of an expert on anything in the law to write with authority yet. So far, the plan is pretty much just to talk about whatever pops into my head. A kind of plan-less plan, then.
The other thing I'm not sure about is how anonymous I want to be. One of the interesting points raised by the NY Times article and Stay of Execution (in a late-December post, but my computer is being persnickety about pulling up the site so I can link to it) about the Anonymous Lawyer blog is, if you choose anonymity, why have you chosen it? I don't necessarily think that anonymous blogs have less value than blogs with known authors, and am sort of leaning towards anonymity at the moment. Although I don't like the idea that I've chosen a life that doesn't let me speak my truth as me. But then again, I think that my reasons for not disclosing who I am, at least right this moment, have more to do with some trepidation about the repercussions of expressing myself in this medium...
So, I can't tell you what to expect. Except verbosity. and the occasional attempt at a pun, or other slighted form of humor. Other than that -- well, we'll find out where this is going together, shall we?
ttfn!