my best judgement signed its resignation

I realize that the presence of a blog with my name on it may raise a few questions. The first of those questions being "Whatever happened to your oath to never blog?" In my defense, allow me to list the events which have led me to blogging:

1. Everybody else is. It's true-- I am a lemming. I can't stand being left out of the loop.
2. My summer internship. I have spent the summer working for Design West Architects, which has contributed to my need to blog in two ways:
   -- I am becoming quite computer savvy. Of course, this is a relative statement. But I have spent a large chunk of time perfecting my Adobe Illustrator skills and now I feel like a genius. And I would appreciate it if all of you truly computer literate people could leave me alone to revel in my ignorant glory. Anyways, blogging seems like the next step in becoming part of the tech crowd. Yes, I know I’m miles away from that, but go with it…
   -- I spend 40+ hours a week sitting in front of a computer, and I only have actual work to do for about 10 of those hours. I get bored and internet shopping gets monotonous…I feel like I have seen every single shopping site in the world (does anyone else remember that commercial a few years ago with the guy who was on his computer when all of a sudden a window popped up, congratulating him for successfully surfing the entire internet? I think it was an ad for high-speed internet or something). I have spent a lot of time emailing and such, which leads me to number 3…
3. For some reason, I am much funnier in the written form. I spend good amounts of time corresponding with friends in the corporate world during my day (and in case you were wondering, I email instead of IM because I have to run a lot of errands and nothing is more annoying that having to repeatedly abandon IM conversations. Email is a lot less stressful). Anyway, I was reading through my archives (thank heavens for gmail) when I realized how incredibly clever I can be when I have the time to carefully plan out what I am going to say. And who am I to reserve the right to appreciate my wit to the select few on my email list? That is just unfair…
4. Jumping out of an airplane. Last Saturday, I went skydiving with seven other friends in scenic Erda, Utah. I am a big fan of risking my life by jumping off of high elevations (bridges, cliffs, bungee towers, etc.), but I have always been a tad wary of skydiving. But as soon as the idea was proposed, I said yes. I couldn’t turn down the opportunity to skydive with a bunch of friends (please see item #1). The experience was incredible…what I thought would be a once-in-a-lifetime experience would totally be a weekly experience if I had the funding for it. The experience inspired a slideshow set to the Top Gun soundtrack (which I find just as amusing everytime), an online photo album, a blog post by Richard, and the creation of three new blogs. Apparently, an occurrence such as this demands a web log.
   

So there you have it. I have caved in.