I’ve somehow missed it yet again – my six year blogiversary! I started officially blogging on October 1st, 2001. I’m amazed that I’m still blogging and have somehow managed to turn it into a professional interest. A lot of things have changed in my life since October 2001 – I don’t live in IL, I’m in my late 20s, I’m not in college, and I work in a different field. Lately, my blogging has been fairly sporadic and other social media formats have taken more of my time (flickr, Facebook, Twitter). As cool as the explosion of social media has been in the past few years, I still miss how exclusive blogging used to be. I miss reading blogs that were authentic – not commerical enterprises. I miss the social connections that I was able to make at that time, simply because there weren’t that many other people participating in this medium. There’s something about this format [large text box + one:many + my own space that isn't part of something else] that I still find engaging and so much more effective at communicating my ideas and documenting my life.
Archive for October, 2007
“Don’t tell me you went to the University of Michigan just to do this?”
Yes, I did participant 5, yes I did. Not only did I attend the University of Michigan “just to do this,” I’m still paying for it!
Hey, look, it’s that time of the year where I apologize for ignoring my blog! I can’t believe I haven’t blogged for nearly two months! When I was conducting research in grad school, I didn’t consider blogs to be active if they hadn’t been updated for a month.
I’ve become one of THOSE bloggers.
Alas, I’m not sure how much of my life needs to be documented in this format anymore – what with posting to flickr and twitter on a weekly basis. And now it seems everyone that I know and their mother is on Facebook . . . and well, there is only so many hours in a day.
I have been fairly busy over the past couple of months. In case you somehow missed it in my flickr stream, I finally moved to my new apartment in Mountain View. The move went smoothly and I unpacked in record time (2 days!). The apartment is great and it has been kind of fun being on the other side of town and getting to explore that. For instance, I now have a new grocery store – yes, City people, these are the things that are exciting in the South Bay.
I did have a lot of little issues when I first moved in (like the dishwasher stopped working one day and then the washing machine stopped working one weekend) but everything seems to be fixed now. The number of maintenance requests that I had filed had gotten so bad that I could just see the leasing office people grimace every time I walked in there with yet another one.
The weekend before I moved, I went down to San Diego to visit Tracey and Erin. It was really fun getting to hang out with both of them, especially since I’ve known them from two totally different periods in my life (grad school and elementary school). We did A LOT over the weekend . . . and I even ended up with a pretty bad sunburn.
Aside from moving and the San Diego trip, I finally caved in and bought an Xbox, which has probably been the most fun entertainment purchase I’ve made in years (it has also been consuming a lot of my free time, hence the lack of blogging). I’ve been mostly playing San Andreas and the Xbox has now replaced my dead dvd player.
I’m going to be on vacation starting Wednesday through the rest of the week for a grand Midwestern tour. I’m going home for a couple of days then heading to Iowa for Matt & Maggie’s wedding. Yay, Iowa! I really can’t contain my excitement about this vacation – Edwardsville AND Iowa in one week?!? :p