All is not yet lost

First Post :)

Reading other people's weblogs has taken up far too much of my time for more than a year now, and I finally gave in and decided to start my own.

My main reason for doing this is because I need a place to vent, since everyone around me has the opposite viewpoint on every issue than I do. I've met a large circle of people on weblogs who make a good deal of sense, and I'd like to get to know them better. I don't think lurking on their blogs and only occasionally posting a comment is going to make that happen, though. Commenting on someone else's blog is like visiting them in their house; and I tend to be very shy with people I don't know. Over here, it's more like them visiting me, so they have to be at least a little interested in what I have to say, right?

So, you're probably thinking, who is this girl? Well, I'm a beginning student in the Accelerated BSN Program at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. I'm 2 months into it, and I love it so far. It's just hard to deal with the fact that everyone I meet is very very liberal as far as political outlook goes, and I get more and more conservative the more I think about various issues. An example: we had a lecture on how important it is for us as nurses to be involved in politics, and her favorite example of successful influence was the passage of a law banning cigarette smoking in restaurants. I looked around and no one in the room seemed to think that having the government regulate how private businesses are run might be a bad thing.

Now, to be fair, I didn't say anything either, so there could be other closet conservatives in the group. I just don't like conflict, and unless the other person seriously offends me, I am probably not going to make an issue out of it. In fact, there are only a couple of issues which I care to engage anyone on, although I am hoping that on a blog, in writing, I will be able to articulate my positions on more of them. But, in particular, I will not back down from an argument about abortion, the role of government, or the importance of the 2nd amendment. This, of course, makes me liable to be a very unpopular person in the company I keep.

So, if you're interested in the travails of a lone conservative in a sea of liberals, stay tuned. I will try and keep this blog interesting, but its primary purpose is to keep me from exploding with suppressed outrage, so be prepared for the occasional invective filled rant.

posted by TiredMama @ 7/29/2004 06:24:00 PM