Today (well, not actually today) it started simply enough.
Today, I accidentally brushed my teeth twice in the morning, and was seven minutes late for my psychology class. I had some apple juice afterward, and then I went on the Internet. MLIA
MLIA stands for My Life Is Average, a website which catalogs the mundane (or not) tales of its users. It is “a place to post the mundane things in your life, and read about what makes life normal for other people.”
That very first entry set the form for what has become a Mecca for more than 2 million entries as simple as the first and as complicated as this one.
This article appears in Jun 24-30, 2010.