Introducing, for your reading pleasure....

I suppose that it's only appropriate for the initial post in any blog to introduce the writer and give more details about the nature of the blog, and this is no exception.

When it comes to writing about my thoughts and day to day happenings, I avidly (and often sporadically) update on LiveJournal.com. Unfortunately, one will find that my entries are rushed and hardly reader-friendly. No matter how hard I try to post regularly, the posts remain inconsistent, and the abundance of gaps in the time line of my life is almost comical, or perhaps just confusing if you're a stranger to my ways. So what is it that people blog about? For the nature of this particular blog, I'm going to try something a little different than the methods with which I've previously written using. I want for this blog to be a less intimate platform for emotion, less angst and raw passionate feeling. Rather, I will use this to keep track of concepts and ideas, I may also record events occurring in everyday life. Overall, I want this blog to be a little more presentable to people than my journal seems to be. However, if one day you find yourself low enough to want to read something more in depth, more personal, you can look up cats_are_gray on LiveJournal.com. This is of course, if you want to know all of my deepest darkest secrets. If you believe you can handle them.

This is all about persuading you to believe I am a person, persuading myself to believe that I have substance.

As for the writer herself, you shall identify me by the name Melissa Rose. I am a living, breathing, feeling person. Every day, I am changing and growing and mutating. I find it a wee, tiny, dust sized bit more possible than impossible to describe myself, and will therefore substitute a lengthy description of my personality with a quote from the novel Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk. "Nothing of me is original, I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known."

Thank you for reading.