...'the blogger'

The blogger - definition*:

One who is given this label due to the writing of a blog. Often given this label in jest - for the amusement of others.

This is an odd post as I have not - and am not currently - aspiring to be 'the blogger of the group'. It is a label that has befallen me ever since word spread to the masses about this blog of mine (when I say masses, I mean my facebook friends).

Last night, I found myself surrounded by said 'group'. The subject of my blog popped up in conversation as a fan of mine (bahaha) mentioned to the others that I had a blog, and that he was a frequent reader - excellent news. However, the mention of my blog did not spark a discussion on the quality of writing, the role of blogs in our society, or a discussion on how it came about ('my story: from blog-rags to blog-riches'). What did occur was an explosion of blog-related gags and witty comments that flowed for the rest of the night; my drinking game name was blog-f*uck and it wasn't a problem if anyone missed a joke, or an anecdote, as I would blog about it the next day.

I want to note, at this point, that none of this offended me or had me crying in the loos - regretting the day I submitted that first post. It was flattering (to a degree) and yet it made me think about how some people must now perceive me.

This may come as a shock to you all, but many of my 'friends' on facebook and twitter are not actually my friends. I KNOW - it's disturbing (lets just keep calling them friends for now for fear I might offend and because it is possible these 'friends' include you). Yet these 'friends' can still get to my blog, read it, judge it, scorn it, praise it, without knowing anything else about me but what is written here. So to many of you out there, I am the girl who blogs - 'the blogger'. I am simply that girl who is having money troubles; the one who went to the same gym as a dwarf and a dennis the menace lookalike; the busy one. Forever** people will say to me, 'you write a blog don't you?' and the words, 'I read your blog today' will be the sentence that saves me and this other person from that awkward silence that comes in a conversation after the pleasantries are out of the way.

So, I have become the blogger. I suppose there could be worse things.

p.s. They were right. I have blogged about it the next day.

*unofficial definition
**I say forever, my blog could dry up next week, but I'm taking the 'glass is half full' route here