No more procrastination

6:56 PM

Okay, I will no longer procrastinate.

I will no longer procrastinate.
I will no longer procrastinate.
I will no longer procrastinate.
I will no longer procrastinate.
...
Hopefully if I type that enough times it will stick.

As this is my seventh attempt at keeping a blog, I will no longer avoid writing this first entry. It's a bad beginning to, what I'm hoping will be, a blog that I can stick with.

So here we go.

This is me:

I am essentially unable to take a flattering photo. 

Here's a quick run down on the weirdo with the sunglasses. I'm a Junior at the University of Florida. This is my first semester in the College of Journalism and Communications, and yet I'm a total wreck when it comes to writing. I have the humiliating secret that, while I am a "journalism student", I have never taken a class on journalistic writing.

Hey, I'm a first semester student, I have to take all the pre-requisites first. I'm also attempting to complete the pre-requisites for a secondary degree in Environmental Science.

I'm starting the blog because I need to get into the habit of frequently writing. For most of my life I've written fiction. This has always been purely for my own enjoyment as I have never indulged in the fantasy of becoming a published novelist. Throughout my senior year of high school and some of my first year in college I journaled frequently. However, since entering my first semester as an actual journalism major, my outside writing activities have been scarce.

Ironic right?

I'm writing this blog not for journalism, but for myself. As this blog is for myself I will write about what I know best; my not very exciting life. I have struggled with keeping a blog after dealing with the advice that I should write in a niche, that way I can gain a specific audience. I have no specific subject I'm incredibly knowledgeable on, and no specific audience to cater to. Due to my low attention span, my interests are too diverse.

This blog is titled Murky Boundaries, a title stolen from this article in the American Journalism Review. I stumbled across this while reading about how to keep a personal blog while still working professionally as a journalist.

If you don't feel like reading an article (and I'm not sure who the you is I'm addressing as no one is reading this blog) here's a summary. Blogging invites a "confusion of roles".

What I garnered from this was a realization about myself. The various circles that I work within (whether it's my educational circle, my work circle, my dance circle, or any other circle I may run in) collide in confusing ways sometimes.

The boundaries between my various selves are very unclear. There are many murky boundaries in my life, and that's what I aim to explore.

I aim to explore how to balance my many selves.

So if you're reading this, I hope I caught your attention.

See you tomorrow.

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Kali Kavouklis is a journalism student with a focus on photojournalism. She also minors in entomology and nematology and wildlife ecology and conservation.