↑ Stuff that I wrote in January 2017 when I was thinking about picking it back up here.
Well, 2020, let's try this again.
I'm not sure if this is the best place to start writing online again. But I've been having the needling to start writing again for about a year and I'm finally gonna do it. I also opened up the blog after a long hiatus and looked at some of the old posts here and was surprised to find that I didn't hate them (you all know how reading old journal entries or old writing can be), so I guess it's still good enough. Who knows if this is where I'll keep writing long-term, but for now, some postings.
I've grown a lot since the blog's heyday. Most of the writing that happened before this was during my first year of University and a LOT of things have changed. I'm done with school now and my professional/career life is completely different than I thought it would be. I've learned different things about myself and the world. And hey, the world and I have both changed a lot. I've gotten married. Holy MOLY does actually having a long-term committed relationship change how you see life. I've changed some of my paradigms about how the internet works, and what it means to be a contributor on the internet, and what internet spaces and personas should be like.
But a lot has still remained the same. I still care deeply about a lot of the topics and issues I wrote about previously--perhaps even more deeply. I've spent time honing those thoughts over the years. I still like to be thoughtful (and I'm excited at the prospect of developing that thoughtfulness even more as I get back into writing more!). I still have many of the same hobbies (plus a few surprises I might tell you about). And I'll still probably blog about lots of different things.
So hold tight, friends. I'm excited about where this can go, and I'm honestly pretty excited to introduce some of my new friends (gosh I've made so many new friends since the early blog days--it's really pretty amazing to think of how many of my close friends are recent finds) to the blog. We can laugh at the old posts together. I'm sure there are some hilarious finds.
And if you feel like being engaged in the comments, please indulge yourself. I want the blog to be a place of conversation more than anything else.
So, thanks for the patience while my life took a trip around the block, and I'm excited to start writing here and sharing thoughts again!
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PS--for any friends who are invested in this blog, or friends with long-term blogging experience: how much should I go back and fix up the old posts that have broken photo links and inscrutable titles that make sense when you read it but aren't good signposts for anything? Let the past be the past, or should I curate things a bit?
