This is Happening

I'm usually on top of pop culture happenings (this week The Harlem Shake, next week TBD) and especially pop culture catch phrases (this week It smells like frickin' Tijuana. What happened here? #newgirl, next week TBD). I've been a subscriber to EW (Entertainment Weekly) for as long as I can remember. I have a digital subscription to The Times. I consume story in its many forms, whether book, musical, movie, meme or on NPR, with a ferocity only matched by my disdain for reality TV (I draw the line at people less intelligent than me, my family, my friends, and my students making more money than the rest of us ever will). My virtual bookshelf on www.shelfari.com is locked in an epic battle with my college friend Barb, now a resident of New Zealand, for reader supremacy. I'm Wikispaced, LinkedIn, Facebooked and a member of the Twitterverse (@KristieSchmidt). I live tweet political speeches, elections, the SOTU, and entertainment awards shows. I've even participated in Twitterchats (www.tweetchat.com, #engchat), a nonlinear explosion of simultaneous threads weaving in and out of a central topic. And yet, one frontier remained unexplored. Until now.

The blog. I resisted the blog the way Jean Luc Picard (My friend Dawn married David Picard. Disappointing. But, they did name their son John [sic].) resisted the Borg. However, as we all know, resistance is futile so here I am. My friend Lisa (http://www.lisawieldswords.wordpress.com) has been blogging EVERY DAY for quite some time now. Her regularity and persistence awe me. My long term daily commitments extend to my cats (Buddha, Yoda, Obi-Wan, and Lucy). But Lisa has inspired me to take a leap, to make a new commitment. Since I don't make New Year's resolutions and I rarely set long term goals (that's another blog altogether), all I will say is that the line is drawn heah and now. I introduce you to Schmidtty First Drafts. Make it so.