Getting off to a bad start

Living a life such as mine, so carefree and full of regret as it is, I felt obligated to subject the world to my uselessness (which according to Jeff is only just barely greater than my novelty) and nonsense. It's not that I have anything particular to say, but rather than I, like so many of you I would imagine, have the unbearable desire to waste other people's time with my life stories (most of which are lies, not entirely my fault). To quote Edgar Poe, I do this "having no other inducement than a kind of nervous restlessness which haunt[s] me as a fiend." And so it begins. Go on...