While I was in Russia this past year, I really enjoyed blogging about my life there. It was nice to be able to rant about things that really bothered me, but not have to annoy my host mom with them. Plus, she really didn't get why I was so upset about most of the stuff anyway. I debated going back to my old LJ when I returned, but ultimately decided that I would never be able to use LJ again. The tipping point was when I realized that Russians—probably the most technologically illiterate people of a developed nation—only use LJ (or ЖЖ, which does look freaking sweet in Russian).
With that decision out of the way, it took me to an even bigger problem: what would be the main point to my blog, or in other words what would I call it. Some people have names that are built for clever blog titles, while others' idioms never change. I, on the other hand, felt that my blog title should convey something about the substance of my ramblings, the essence of my being. So I took a while to think about it.
On one of my last days in Moscow, I was sitting on the metro thinking about how many things I'd seen on my hundreds and hundreds of hours on the metro. For some strange reason I couldn't help but thinking about the bomb that went off in 2004 on my line during the morning commute. (Unfortunately, my mind wandered there quite often.) However, short of a massive terrorist attack, there's very little that could halt the Moscovites from moving around their city with ease (let's face it, they do a hell of a job considering they handle more trips every day than NYC and London combined). Someone picking your pocket is so trivial that you might as well not even tell the police. That got me to thinking... Why would you ever steal one wallet at a time? Why not just hold up an entire car and run like hell once the doors open? It would probably work even better if you could have one person at each of the three doors. I later mentioned this to one of my expat friends and she looked at me like I was insane. All of the sudden I realized it was probably not good to be pondering the most efficient way to steal several dozen people's valuables while trapped in an enclosed space for a very short period of time.
And that's how this blog came to be. Well, actually it took an annoyingly long time to find a combination of words that conveyed this meaning, but wasn't already taken. Which obviously means I'm not the only person who has strange thoughts like this from time to time. However, I find it's often more fun to point out other people's bizarre brain babies, so I'm okay with it. Whether I bring you my own twisted logic, point out someone else's, or maybe mix the two together, I promise I'll at least try my best to make it amusing.
/boring introductory post
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