To be or not to be a "blogger"

For some time now I have been contemplating the idea of becoming a "blogger". Quite honestly, the idea has a lot of appeal.

#1) Is a seemingly brilliant way of excising the plethora of useless nonsense that marches around my brain all day.
#2) Perhaps discover that other people have similar nonsense floating around in their brains and thereby feel much better about self.
#3) Get to feel all creative and artsy fartsy.
#4) Perhaps get discovered by newspaper with enormous circulation and become overnight international writing sensation!!

But if I am to become a "blogger"(Can I stop putting that in quotes? I'm going to stop putting that in quotes. Pretty sure it's unnecessary), what will I write about? What if I have nothing to write about? Zero. Nata. Zilch. Who will read my blog then? Who wants to read about nothing? I mean Seinfeld was about nothing and people watched that, but . . . no.

And how often would I have to blog to be considered a blogger? Every day? Every week. Once a month? And how long would each blog have to be? Is there a minimum number of words like for college essays? I hate minimum numbers of words. So much pressure! If I didn't know I needed to make at least 200 words, I could probably come up with 500, but if you tell me I need 200 words, I'm stuck at 75. Zero. Nata. Zilch. See the theme? Nice huh? I think I lot of blogs have themes and their readers like that. And what are they called? The people who read these blogs. I guess I could blog about that.

Maybe I could blog about work? My job is a virtual gold mine of blogging material! And endless supply of hilarious crap comes out of that place. But then if my work people start reading my blog (or worse yet, my boss!), then I likely wouldn't write the things I really wanted to write because it might hurt someone`s feelings or be offensive (or I'll get sacked) and then I`m not writing what I want to write, I`m writing some censored version of what I want to write and who wants to read that?

After watching Julie and Julia last week, I was totally motivated to dedicate my life to blogging! I laid in bed that night thinking of what I could blog about and decided I would blog about the books I read. Was very pleased with myself as I drifted off to sleep. In the harsh light of day, however, I realized that I would have very little to say about the books I read. I'm just not that deep. I would be the Siskel and Ebert equivalent of book review blogging - thumbs up, thumbs down. How helpful is that?

Is it ludicrous to contemplate blogging about the number of things I could blog about if I wanted to? Could that be the premise of my blog? Would people actually read that? Would any of these people happen to work for a newspaper with an enormous circulation? See the "theme"? Nice huh? I think the blogger readers will really like that.