Well. After an unplanned hiatus, I’m back. I’ve switched hosts (the last one ate the SQL database that housed my blog, and was less than responsive to my pleas for help) and spent way too many hours trying to recover the stuff that I hadn’t backed up or was eaten. I lost much of May, and probably some comments, but overall I’m pretty pleased with the extent to which I was able to recover. Many thanks to Google’s cached pages. The poetry and gallery sections are not yet working, but I hope to get to them relatively soon. We’ll see.
Anyway, while I’ve been gone…School has continued to go well, and I’m now really excited for the coming semesters. It sounds like I’ll be able to tailor my McDaniel experience to my interests (well, interest: creative writing), and my advisor has been amazingly supportive so far. I haven’t officially made the switch yet, but I think I’m going to drop the Political Science piece of my major (I was English/PoliSci with a Writing minor) to give me more time to do the extra creative writing stuff. Again, we’ll see.
Non-academically, I am still loving my apartment here in Westminster, and I’ve made some on-campus friends I’ve really been enjoying spending time with. It’s also wonderful to have my sister here.
I would like to say that I will go back to updating regularly, but November is National Novel Writing Month and I have been convinced to undertake this insane task. They recommend lots of boasting before November starts so that failure to write 50,000 words carries with it a large dose of embarassment. So here’s my boasting: I’m gonna write 50,000 words in November! Yikes.
For now, I’m going to go do the dishes.
here’s an imaginary blog post that i would post if i had a blog:
“i’ve somehow managed to convince a friend (and am working on others) to undertake an insane adventure into the lands of imagination, frustration and general madness
just the idea of doing something so crazy has allowed me to get my shit together and make sense of my life. having an outlet for my unsanity is definitely a healthy thing, yes yes. aside from rock and roll of course and that is still going max strong!!”
i’m glad you’re enjoying mcdaniel. i like it a lot here, too. it is an interesting place with interesting people.
tonight is fall back!
i have to write about a space exploration program!
YEAAAAAAAHh
-ross
Woohoo! My first post-hiatus comment!
This excites me because recovery of many of the comments meant copying and pasting them, editing the timestamp, etc., and gave me ample time to re-read all the little conversations that have happened over the last few months. I love the comments — the discussions and other perspectives they offer are probably my favorite part about having a blog.
So thanks, commenters.
We commenters are very happy to once again have a place to post our rants and occasional insights. Glad the site is up and running again! I was worried we would be deprived of a forum in which we can celebrate the decline of the Republican party. Woo hoo!
Yay! So glad to have you back, Kristin!
Where should we start the celebration? There are just so many options!