Fugato

There, I finally did it, started a blog. Weird that I didn’t do it sooner; I like words, at least in writing, and my friends are scattered across the globe, for some reason that hopefully has nothing to do with me. So I have full reason to blog; why haven’t I already? I harbor a lingering fear that it might be because I have nothing interesting to say. We’ll just have to find out.

I will write mostly in English, switching to Icelandic only when writing about things of no interest to non-Icelanders. I am writing mostly for my friends, and a lot of my friends don’t speak Icelandic.

[Edit: here I described my reasons for the original name of my blog. The reasons were almost as bad as the name. That name was scrapped, so there's no reason to discuss the reasons for it.]

I will blog just because I enjoy putting together words. And maybe because I do a lousy job of staying in touch with friends around the world; this way they at least know I’m alive, and the highlights (or at least the publishable highlights) of what’s going on in my life.

I like words and language, rather a lot. I will use weird words whenever I think of them. And if I think of a straightforward way to say something, and an interesting way of saying it, I’ll vote for interesting every time. People sometimes feel that that’s showing off. If you ever get that impression, please bear in mind that that is your problem, not mine. I do it because I enjoy it, not because I want to impress you, and if it bugs you, you are very welcome to go read something else.

This is not exactly “satisfaction guaranteed,” but I’ll try not to blog unless there is something at least slightly interesting to blog about. Interesting to me, that is. You may not be interested in obscure words, or software development, or self-referentiality, or Shostakovich — but at least I won’t be blogging about what I had for breakfast.

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