The Coincidence Train Is Now Boarding

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Big News » MSNBC has been reporting that time is running out to file your tax returns! Is it?! Who knew? Because that April 15th always sneaks up on everybody. Yeah, you have to actually look at a calendar.

Now, today's story...

I started this blog a week ago yesterday when Liz told me she was thinking of starting one. It seemed like a good idea to me, so here I am. It was a novelty, something new I'd never tried before. But since I like to write, it's been a good fit.

Last weekend we got a little more into it, learning how to post pictures and what not. I even created two more blogs to go with it, one fictional, one a collection of quotes.

A couple days later, I got a USF blanket e-mail informing students that a new online service is now available to us. It's called blog@USF. If only we'd waited a couple of days. We wouldn't be here. Good thing we didn't, this is a great site. (No, they aren't paying me. But they should, right?)

Over the weekend at some point, Liz showed me a blog that she liked to read, written by a former Tampa radio DJ. She lives in Boston now but she did a write-up one day about this guy who calls himself Peter Pan. His name is Randy something and he lives here in Tampa. He dresses up as Peter Pan on a daily basis. This is how he goes to the grocery store and the doctor's office, etc. Yes, I agree, he is a freak. But that couldn't matter less to this story.

On Monday I picked up a copy of The Oracle (USF's student newspaper) on the way to my advertising class. And what do you suppose was right there on the front page? Well if my style of storytelling didn't lead you there, then I'll spell it out: Peter Pan. That's pretty weird, right? He was prominently featured on the Features page, now dubbed Montage for reasons passing understanding.

Two days later, right before Comm Law, I grabbed a copy of The Oracle. Maybe you can guess what the cover story was. It talked about how USF is the first university (in which many are likely to follow) to offer personal blogs to students. No lie.

Then the coincidence train made its most recent stop at the Blogger Buzz page this morning when I saw this post. They talk about about the technology in USF's new blog service. And even though they called us the "University of Southern Florida," I'm willing to see past it if for no other reason than they made us famous for a day. Still, it's South, man. University of South Florida.

Northerners: Just wanted to close by sending a shout-out to my returning readers from New York. But I have one question. Why? Are my stories that interesting? Leave me some commments if you've got the time. You know how writers love feedback.