First introductions

I recently watched the (incredible) movie, Julie & Julia. Actually, I'll admit that I just finished it not ten minutes ago. That is what inspired this.

Now, I've never actually done a blog before. In fact, I'm not entirely sure what a blog is. However, I am willing to try to make this interesting for whatever internet-goers care enough to read this.

I have before done blog-like...things. I'm (somewhat) active on deviantART and thus post semi-regular journals on my page there. But that's a journal. This is a blog. Is there a difference? Well, the words are different. Perhaps they're synonyms, but for my purposes here, I'm going to try something different as I go about my day-to-day life.

I have but one goal for this blog: to make my life sound much more interesting than it probably already is.

Now, I won't do introductions. Instead I prefer my audience get to know me on a more personal basis. Over time you will come to know and love (or hate, depending on who you are and what you like to read, in which case, if you don't like this, why would you read it?) me and my surroundings just as much as I love and-slash-or hate them. That's right. There is no middle ground.

One thing you may come to find is that my style of writing may change. This usually depends upon my mood, my depth of thought, and who I've been talking to as some people tend to stimulate my more formulaic functioning. (As you can see, I've managed to demonstrate that.)

Typically, I'm a quite simple person. Fresh out of high school and more than excited to start my Fall quarter at the Art Institute of Atlanta, you guessed it: I'm a lowly young adult. (Apparently my brain cannot function enough to spell the word “adult” while it can in fact spell “formulaic” without a problem. Perhaps there's a lapse in communication between my fingers and my brain?) “Lowly” might not be the right word in my case. While I do run on the more average height, I'm not really scraping the streets for a bite to eat. I consider myself a fortunate person with plenty of pleasures in life while also suffering from the griping problems of middle-middle class. (Such as griping about the horrible quality of my incredibly stupid smartphone.)

As another warning ahead of time, I do have a tendency to interject with strange and unusual thoughts. Moreover, it fits the actual title of my blog that currently lacks that artistic uniqueness. One idea that I have been given is to tell the world about the most random thing that happened to me that day. In addition, I think I might try to completely blow the situation out of proportion. Actually, I might tell my day-to-day life as a sort of over-exaggerated story.

Here is my new goal: start each blog with the “Crazy Random Happenstance of the Day.” (Why yes, I have watched Dr. Horrible several times.) With that in mind, it is more than likely that I will go on a tangent and tell the rest of my stories of the day, be they exaggerated or just...normal.

Everything said, perhaps you might like to learn who I am. Throughout the last few years of my life, I have come to be widely known as qorter. If you capitalize the 'Q,' you're doing it wrong. (I also think that comma looks out of place, but grammar is grammar.) More formally I am known as Courtney with a French last name that makes me love my French ancestry and which is another reason I loved Julie & Julia.

Taking an idea from the movie/book, let's play “Guess My Last Name!” Clue number one: My last name also is the name of a popular sauce. Clue number two: They mentioned this sauce in The Princess and the Frog. If you already know me (because you seem to have an affinity for following me around on the internet.), you're not allowed to guess. I want to leave this up to whatever readers exist in the blogging world.

So, it is currently about to reach the time of 1:00am on what is now September 4, 2012. Only 108 days until Zombie Apocalypse. Are you prepared?