The Inevitable "First Post"

I like to blog, but I don't really have the time to create something fancy or update it all the time.  And frankly, no one but me really cares about what I have to say.  But the internet is big, and there is certainly room for one more person to store thoughts and ideas, mostly about the tv shows, movies, and books that I consume.  I don't plan to talk a lot about my personal life, and I won't talk about my professional life at all, because that always feels a little unethical, what with lawyer-client confidentiality and this being the internet.  But I am hoping that it will appease my human need to scream my ideas out into the world and see what bounces back.  Probably very little.  Except for my friend Trish, who will probably be my first, and most loyal reader.

So, a little about what's going on, just to place us in the scene. I am in my mid-thirties, and I work as an attorney in Northern Virginia, aka NOVA, aka Washington DC metro area.  I am in the midst of studying for my third bar exam, so that I can add another jurisdiction to the three I am already licensed in.  This takes up a lot of my free time.  My boyfriend is also an attorney.  Feel free to sing that horrible "Lawyers in Love" song if the mood strikes you...

We like to watch movies, and have Netflix, but we go to see so many movies in the theater, and so many tv shows when they are actually on tv, that we never know what to watch.  So we end up doing themes.  Our last theme was James Bond, which was both enjoyable and educational.  We are about to embark on our latest theme, which is the AFI Top 100.  Which lots of people have done, and even blogged about.  And the idea of doing that even inspired me to create this blog.  But this blog is not going to be just about our watching the AFI Top 100.  It's also going to be about the other things that we do and watch and read.  An exercise in navel-gazing to be sure, but isn't that what most blogs are?  It's really just a place for me to write about these things.  And it will serve 2 purposes.  First, it will give me a place to exercise my writing, which I never get enough time to do.  I do plenty of legal writing, but not that is very different.  Second, it will give me a place for my friends to leave me comments, since facebook is clearly not working enough on that score.  So here we are.  The beginning of the blog.  Maybe I'll stop posting in three weeks.  Or maybe it will go on for three years.  Such anticipation!