I understand that this comes across as a strange blog topic for many of you. I read several of your passion blog plans last week, and they all came across as very… legitimate topics. Not that squirrels aren’t legitimate—they absolutely are. It might just take a bit more convincing for some of you.
You see, I just really like squirrels. But, I am not Penn State’s “Squirrel Girl.” It’s not some creepy obsession or irrational love, I just like them. And, quite frankly, it is pretty easy to write about them. I didn’t want my passion blog topic to be something too heavy last semester or this semester. I wanted my blogs to be fun and easy to read and even more fun to write, and the topic of squirrels fits the bill perfectly.
Because none of you had the chance to read my blogs last semester, I feel as if I should start at the beginning. Squirrels are my favorite animal, and have been since I was a little kid. I can still recall watching them scamper through my grandparents’ yard when I was six or seven years old, loving how silly they looked when they moved and how their tails looked like brown marshmallows. I remember having to convince my grandfather not to shoot them with the BB gun when they found their way into the bird feeder, and how my grandmother used to (and still does) call them big rats with tails.
It just constantly seemed as if it was squirrels versus the rest of the world, and let’s be real here, squirrels weigh less than a pound; there’s no way they could take on the whole world. I’ve always enjoyed rooting for the underdog, and in a planet filled with dangerous powerlines, hawks, the elderly armed with BB guns, and vicious domesticated animals, squirrels are the underdogs.
Now, last semester, I focused mostly on general squirrel facts and more light-hearted topics. I touched upon things like squirrel hibernation, different squirrel variations, squirrel related movies, blue squirrels, and squirrel domestication. You know, just the basics. However, this semester, as per request of family and friends, things will be getting much more serious. This semester, I will be capturing the dark side of squirrels—when squirrels strike back, if you will. This semester, the squirrels will no longer be the underdogs– they’ll be your worst nightmare.
My weekly blog posts will discuss topics such as squirrel related injuries, the impact squirrels have on our society, and squirrels in the news.
None of you people know me yet, but by the end of this semester’s blog posts, I hope you will. I swear I’m not crazy, I’m just a very… light-hearted writer, who likes rodents. I can assure you’ll never be bored reading my posts, and that very few of them will include any legitimate facts or date, just like this post.
And that’s a promise.
Get ready section 29. The squirrels are about to be unleashed.
