About this blog

“If you get lost in the woods, f— it, build a house. ‘I was lost but now I live here. I have severely improved my predicament!’ ” - Mitch Hedberg (1968-2005)

I’m the type of person who’s tried the personal website thing, the journal thing, the blog thing, all mostly to no avail. They are many branches on a spindly trunk that always threatens to become a branch itself. I love the idea of order – fancy notebooks, containers of all kinds, and new organizational schemes never fail to tempt me – but I’ve come to accept the fact that any on-top-of-itness I exhibit is only temporary. The only thing constant through this is that I still aspire to be that person who blogs regularly without fail, who documents her life and others’ with photos, who is able to keep her head above the surface of old receipts and invoices without flailing.

Perhaps I just had to wait for the right tools to come along. I realize that chaos cannot be changed, but perhaps it can be harnessed in a way that resembles control. If you get lost, maybe you don’t need to get unlost. Maybe you just need to make the situation work for you. So this will be yet another experiment. Instead of multiple blogs and trying to compartmentalize my life and interests, I will let them intermingle seamlessly, because sometimes there just aren’t any obvious seams between them. Instead of trying to maintain my own website, I’ll let someone else (WordPress) do the dirty work. True, I give up some control in the process, but I think I gain it all back if it means I write more, more easily, and more often. At least, that’s the hope.

Content-wise, I make no promises. Other blogs I write and contribute to have covered topics as varied as academia and open science, cooking, Ultimate Frisbee, and, of course, life in general. I imagine this uber-blog will still talk about all of those things, and while I harbor no illusions that I have either a large or a devoted following, I’ll do my best to categorize and tag my posts to make filtering easier for whatever audiences this blog may have. In the end, though, this blog is mostly for me. If you like it, too, then w00t!