Let's Try This Again
My first foray into blogging was back in 2006. After just finishing my sophomore year at Mizzou, I decided to blog my summer internship at the Tulsa World. I was borderline obsessive about blogging every day; the thought was that if I wrote every day, I would A) not have to tell everyone the same stories to everyone, and B) hone my writing skills.
It was terrible.
I don't mean that in an embarrassing, "oh man, I can't believe what I did when I was young" kind of terrible. I mean objectively, actually terrible. Not only did I have nothing to write about (maybe aside from the time I drowned my car), but I just wasn't very good at it. I more or less tried to fake my way through it. Yeah, I'm a talented writer, look at these semicolons, I'm beyond my years!
That's me in the photo, back in Tulsa in 2006. Look at that guy. That guy sucks. Here is a by-no-means-comprehensive list of things that suck about that guy:
- Cargo shorts
- Visor
- Trying to be funny by joking about how he'd flooded his car three days previous
- Chubby
- You can't see it, but he has his glasses in his pocket which he took off for the purpose of taking this photo, meaning that he put effort into looking like this
- He has a blog no one reads
That was nearly nine years ago. Some things have changed (I have a real, live, big-boy job, and a wife, and a house) and some things haven't (I still use too many semicolons). But hey, let's give this blogging thing another go.
I do a fair amount of writing for my job — managing editor of Dave Campbell's Texas Football and TexasFootball.com — and God knows I Tweet too much (follow me @Tepper!), but I haven't really had an opportunity to have free reign, a forum in which I can write what I want in more than 140 characters.
Hence, this. I've been meaning to start my own website for a while — shoutout to you, dude who's squatting on GregTepper.com, probably to get vengeance on me for something I did to you — and this seems like a good time.
What's it going to be about? Eh. I don't really know, and that's kind of by design. I don't want to pigeonhole myself to say that I'm going to write this or I'm not going to write that. I'd rather say, hey, I'm going to try to blog once or twice a week, maybe try to read it.
I'm at least a marginally better writer than I was in 2006. Or, at least, we're about to find out.