Partner up!

A friend recently requested that I write another blog entry because, well, she was bored. Fair enough. As a (very tempermental) blog writer myself, one would think that I would better appreciate the value of a good blog. But, as it goes, my love (like?) for blogs is very recent-- a love that is really all thanks to my roommate, Madeleine, who can list off her go-to blogs quicker than you can ask "when do you work?" I may be the writer here, but it is Madeleine who is the true blogger. She gets it. She gets what makes a blog great, and why readers come back.

I have admittedly been a terrible "blogger". This whole thing started my senior year when I saw an ad that a young freelance writer was needed for bettyconfidential.com, a new women's lifestyle website. They particularly needed someone who could write about her dating life. I sure did talk about *boyz* enough (to really anyone who would listen), so why not put my personal life out there in cyberspace?

When I discovered that I would need actual writing samples, my first thought was to raid my high school diary. My second thought was that articles about the senior quarterback giving me the smile-and-nod in the hallway might not interest betty's readership. Thus, "twenty-something female" was born. Now here I am 3 years later wishing that I had done more- wishing that I had turned this blog into one of Madeleine's oh-so-worthy go-tos.

Well, my friends, there is no better time than now. Starting this spring, my goal is to whip this blog into shape. And what better way to do so than to make resident blog guru Madeleine my partner, my second half, my collaborateur magnifique! So stay tuned for a new chapter of twenty-something. We will have it all. We will slay every other blog that you have ever read. And we will do it all... at work. (Just kidding, colleagues! We only blog on the weekends.)

Stay tuned... and I mean it this time.