My blog from May 1, 2006:

“Alrightythen! I finally got a MySpace*. People will now find it easier to stalk me. Anyways, since I’m obsessive-compulsive, I had to start this on the 1st of a Month–I wanted to start this a week or so ago, but NO–that would be in the middle of April. I’m tired now and I want to go to bed, but NO–that would mean I would have to wait another month to start.
Anyway, it’s all good. I’ll be here posting my thoughts every day. At least, that’s what I want to do.

The odds of it happening?

50:1.
Meh.”

Oh, silly little high-schooler. If only you knew.

Yes, the internet has been putting up with my daily drivel for six years now. Scary stuff, huh? Haha, I should actually blame Aneel and E’raina for this…they’re the ones that peer-pressured me into getting a MySpace and starting a blog. DO YOU SEE WHAT YOU’VE DONE?!

Anyway, yay! I’ve spent the past two weeks or so going through each and every one of my posts to create a nice large data set. Because I spent so long doing it, I thought it only fitting that I not confine my statistical exploration of my blogs to one night (tonight). Therefore, I will give you six days (one for each year I’ve been blogging) of stats/blogging insanity guaranteed to either interest you or make you wonder why the hell you even read this. Or both. Or neither. Maybe it’ll give you cheese. The possibilities? Endless.

This is what’s going down in the Big Week o’ Blog Stats Celebration:

• Wednesday: Comparisons by blog category
• Thursday: Mean word comparisons by weekday, month, and year
• Friday: The use and frequency of images and surveys
• Saturday: Common words and topics
• Sunday: Overall trends: Gunning Fog Index and word count
• Monday: The best blogs

Excited? I am! Any excuse to do some recreational stats.

Here’s to six more years (at least)!

*YES, I started out on MySpace. Give me a break, it was the thing back in 2006, you know it was.