Reasons not to get a blog

I have at last given in to yet another internet fad. The blog. One i tried so very hard to resist, until at long last the time-wasting devil on my left shoulder achieved victory over the use-your-time-wisely angel on my right. 

Reasons not to get a blog, said right shoulder occupant:

1. You already have myspace

2. You already have facebook

3. You already have internet banking, ebay and an hotmail account

4. You already have a university ‘student portal’ and ‘Electronic Blackboard’

5.  You are a hopeless procrastinator

Yet with all the knowledge graciously bestowed on me by this wise benefactor, I somehow succumbed to temptation and thus find myself now, on a Friday night I blew off going to Chapel street for study purposes, creating this; ‘Blacking out the fiction’ (for those unelightened of you, it’s my clever play on ‘Blacking out the friction’ by Deathcab for Cutie’. Anyhoo.. I am claiming, like Eve, that the devil made me do it. I think if I had met the serpent head on over this little temptation the conversation would have gone something like this:

Serpent: Lovely day for a blogssssspot, isssn’t it?

Me: I suppose, but I really should be reading David Copperfield plus 2 weeks and four readers worth of uni reading.

Serpent: Do you reeeeally need to read alll that reading? Didn’t the lecturer only make reference to it onssssce in the entire last classsss?

Me: Yeah, I know. That’s what’s so annoying about creative arts!!!

Serpent: Creative artssss! Don’t you want to be a writer? Well, you know what would give you a chance to really expand your skills? … (wait for it) … A BLOG!!!

Me: I guess, but I’d probably waste alot of time on it when I should be studying. My creative writing tutor said the computer is the biggest time waster of all…

Serpent: The creative writing tutors don’t want you to keep a blog, because they know if you do you’ll become a much better writer….

….. And I’m bored now, but so and so forth.

My self-justifying rant now finished, I think I will review my first post and try and find something to eat that doesn’t involve heat.

The forecast is 30,36,36,36,36,30,23. NOT COOL.

I now, like Eve, with you the reader as my proverbial Adam, urge you to partake of this sinful waste-of-time with me.

But don’t blame me when your failing at the end of semester because you’re hooked on my facinating blog!!!!