Welcome

Welcome to Passionately Apathetic. As the subtitle implies, my primary goal in creating this blog is to offer a variety of humorous, interesting, and/or entertaining stories, observations, quotes, pictures and so on, with no particular theme or topic of focus tying them together.

One of the reasons I started this blog was the result a small challenge that I extended to James. With him having just embarked on a two-year Peace Corps "sentence" in West Africa, I suggested that I could create a more entertaining blog than he could. You might be wondering how I can possibly pull this off. After all, I'll be spending the majority of my days in typical corporate America fashion, sitting in a cubicle for 40 hours a week. James, on the other hand, will be petting monkeys and climbing giraffes, from what I understand.

I still think I can pull it off. I firmly believe that only about 15% of a story's value comes from what you're writing about, and the other 95% comes from how you write about it. (If you're wondering about the math, this blog promises to be so entertaining, it requires 110% of my effort.)

So, with this challenge, Passionately Apathetic is in direct competition with James's two blogs, the first a "politically correct" version of his adventure (http://jamesetjulie.blogspot.com), and the second a slightly more "inappropriate" write-up of his time in Africa (you'll have to email me if you want the link to that one). I guess that means you can expect plenty of graphic, poop-themed stories as he fumbles his way through life without American plumbing. Heck, he had plenty of issues even when he had access to American plumbing...but that's another story for another blog post.

How will we decide the winner of this little contest? That's yet to be determined...page views? Number of followers? Quality and/or quantity of comments posted by readers? Ad revenue generated? Who knows. We'll just have to figure that out later.

For now just enjoy my blog, and be sure to become a follower, view each of my pages many, many times, post as many high-quality comments as possible, and click on every ad at least five times. Who needs monkeys, international travel, and selfless volunteer work when you have Excel spreadsheets, monthly staff meetings, and bi-annual performance reviews? Not to mention my extremely enviable low risk of contracting malaria. The greatest dangers I ever encounter are printer jams, paper cuts, and the unlikely-but-not-impossible bite from a rabid co-worker.

The first "real" post is on it's way soon. Unfortunately, this one won't be particularly funny, but I guarantee that it'll be packed with excitement.