Thursday, January 23, 2014

My Long Anticipated Return to the Blogosphere

A select few of you, which, considering that very few people will see this to begin with, you’re pretty damn select, will remember Derek’s Super Sexy Swinging Adventures.  I made the blog in 2009 when Kristen, Shara, Cole and I spent two months in Hawaii to document our amazing adventures.  Unfortunately, I ran out of steam after 3 posts and haven’t touched it since.  It still lasted 3 times longer than Cole’s Super Secret Adventures so I consider it a success.   

Anyway, 4 years later I decided to start blogging again for a few reasons.
  1. I seem incapable or writing a technical publication and blogging seems to alleviate some of the anxiety (there will be much more ranting about this in future posts).
  2. Aside from ping pong a lot of people wonder what the Hell I do as a PhD student so I decided to open a window into my life to show you just how wonderful it is. 
  3. My friend Adri Ballif once wrote on my timeline, “WRITE SHIT!” So I am. 
  4. I’ve had some decent opportunities to travel for conferences and field work over the last couple years and I know that a lot of you are just dying to get the juicy details. 
  5. Kristen has done an awesome job of documenting and blogging our lives. As much as I like to pretend that excessive documentation is “lame” and I get annoyed at the excessive photographing, I am sure that I look back at the posts and pictures a lot more than she does. Maybe she’s onto something.
  6. Barney Stinson has a blog!
Welcome to Musings and Travels. 

As a quick side not, I’d really say I’m more of a rambler than a muser as musings are supposed to be pensive and borderline philosophical where my posts will be a bit more random and petty.  That said, I’d like to one day aspire to musings, hence the name.  Finally, it appears that people have already thought of this title and most titles similar to it so I get to put a 2 in my URL.  It sorta feels like admitting defeat before I even begin.  Meh.