it's morphin' time!

greetings, friends. been a while. been away, visiting places like chicago and vegas and the grand canyon. those tales will have to wait until i have a chance to process them. suffice it to say, my second trip to vegas was infinitely better than my first, as was my second trip to see the canyon, especially since i got to see it this time.

as you may have noticed, there have been a couple of changes to my blog. for a lot of blogdom, blogging is a way to get their ideas and insights out to the masses, to show what they know and to spark conversations and debate about what they have to say.

this is not me.

i'm only interested in having a place to process what i'm thinking and feeling. as my class this summer reminded me, writing is the primary way i make sense of my life. unfortunately, it can be like watching sausages being made. so why do it in a public forum? because it's motivation for me to write. knowing people are out there wanting to read what i have to say makes me more likely to do so. you, my faithful readers, are like my accountability partners - not holding me accountable for what i write, but that i write at all.

so i summed up my attitude for my blog at the top of the page. and i took off the comments feature, since i'm not that interested in feedback and most of the people who read this know how to get in touch with me anyway. so if something i say really gets you fired up, by all means, email me.

i suppose this ranting and raving could seem a bit stupid and self-indulgent, but then it is a blog so that shouldn't surprise anyone. neither should the fact that things here sometimes get a bit melancholy. but understand that what you get here is not all of my life; much of the time, it's those parts i need to figure out. and i don't usually need to figure out the happy parts.

enough explanation. thanks for your time and indulgence. and thanks for reading. it really does help.
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tunes: boston - amanda