Internet, meet your newest blogger!

Welcome to my first post here! It's one of many blogs I've started and tried to keep up with, so let's see if I can keep this one better updated. I'll start with a quote, since I do need a better place than my Facebook page to keep track of all the quotes I like.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Read the entirety of Self-Reliance here.

I can remember reading Thoreau's Walden in tenth grade English class and spending all year on it. I hated that book. But it's a little weird, because I do like some Transcendentalist ideas, and I freaking love Emerson. I'd expound on that, but I think I'll save it for a future post.

The reason for this particular quote is, of course, the blog's title. I personally believe in consistency; I try my damnedest in life to be a consistent person in what I do, in how I deal with people, in everything I can. Like everyone else, of course, I can be a hypocrite--it's human nature--but I try not to be. Perhaps it is a foolish consistency, but if I do not hold on to that, how is anything that I do more than just the erratic workings of the universe? Shouldn't I be more purposeful and thus...consistent?

I know, I know, that's not exactly what Emerson was talking about here; I got onto my own little tangent. Regardless, I revel in the idea of being consistent. And that is why this blog is called what it is. (:

Some things to expect in future from this blog:

1. Song analysis! I listen to my iPod too much for my own good, so I read too much into my music. I've never been particularly musically astute, but the words? Heck yeah, you're gonna be ripped apart when I listen to you!
2. Book reviews! I'm working on a 100 book meme that I started for another blog that's kind of inactive at the moment, so I might cross-post that.
3. School stuff! Next year, I won't have my parents for that kind of ranty goodness at all hours, so it will probably go here next year instead.
4. Weird ramblings! See the above post.
5. Science! There's so much cool stuff that's going on out there, it just needs to be talked about sometimes.
6. Writing! Because I still do this, and I plan on doing JulNo again this summer. I'm working on fanfic again, and I have a brand spankin' new idea for something to write. Entirely new, no longer about the "Clare Arbor" 'verse. It's gonna be awesome!
7. And hopefully much, much more!

I hope to post again tomorrow. I have something...special in mind that is the perfect note to end the week on. Heh. Pun.

Until then, good night.