I’ve been busy cleaning out the storage sheds and getting rid of things we’ll never use or want again. One of the interesting things about this family is we tend to do a lot of unusual things and we also have a hard time getting rid of things. I’ve found it very easy to create appealing listings in the Craigslist “free” section, such as this one:
Free Land Shark
Free leopard shark, maybe 10 years old. Survives well on land or suspended in air, but I don’t know about in water. I’m not sure of the gender, but you can investigate for yourself if you need to use it for breeding. Plays well with other pets, as seen in the picture.
You pick it up and supply your own cage/food.
Dog not included.
There had been about 5 responses within the hour, so I decided to go with the most appropriate, a local commercial fisherman who wanted it for his son. I suggested a trade of fish for fish — payment that is not generally the norm for Craigslist.
Nearly everyone who reads used to read this blog and has physically interacted with me in the past few months has reprimanded me for not posting more/at all. It’s strange how my desire to write declines so drastically when there are increasingly interesting things happening to me. Five years ago, I would write every single day about things that even bored me, but I don’t qualify a trip to Japan for even a mention.
Fortunately for those who, long ago, subscribed to my RSS feed, there will be at least a few new entries coming from this site. I’m in the process of moving on with my life, a change that involves applying to both jobs and graduate school. While the job application process shouldn’t interest readers much, I’ll claim the grad school applications should.
My reasoning for this is that all of these applications require some form of writing, either showing how well qualified you are for the program, how much you want to help the world, or some other persuasive piece of self promotion. The truth is, I haven’t done much writing in the past year — not just counting the absence of my blog. There haven’t been any research papers I wrote in two hours the morning it was due or any stern emails to corporations expressing my dissatisfaction over faulty products. Even my oral conversations were usually with those who had only basic English comprehension, so if I worded something in a way that made me particularly proud, I would generally have to reword it in a way that was more easily understood. And that’s not even counting that most of my conversations were with my girlfriend Caitlin, a relationship usually noted for pet names and personal lingo (in our case, we could often sustain conversations where we only stated our sentences in acronyms).
In short, I haven’t written anything in a long time and I need to do so for the future. Thus, I am reactivating this blog.