This Blog Still Exists

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.