That's probably not the right term for walking away from your blog for over 1.5 years and also taking it offline. But I decided maybe I do have something interesting to say, at least some of the time.
Also I was a little inspired b/c I found a blog by a colleague about a hike he and his friend are doing on the PCT. Sounds really fun and they posted beautiful pics. I am not going to do that here and I don't think my life is nearly as interesting as hiking the PCT right now. Nonetheless, he noted that hiking the PCT is surely less difficult than completing a PhD. Since I am in the final stages (ABD) of my own PhD I guess that means I might have something worth blogging about. You understand that, right?
And so now I am going to post something completely unrelated to my PhD. Except, not really. Because one thing I have learned about myself while completing my PhD is that I am easily distracted by things unrelated to my research (and these distractions may ultimately be my professional undoing b/c I am willing to spend way too much time on things I can't control or that don't matter. Except, sometimes they do.). So, I have obviously spent way too much time being distracted by the presidential campaign for almost an entire year now (whew, what a relief it will be when it is over!). In the past couple of weeks in particular I have spent a lot of time dispelling the myth that Sarah Palin is the perfect woman and wondering how any parent with so many young kids and a pregnant teen can be running for the 2nd highest post in the country. Yes, ANY parent. And here is my story (finally). I saw a young woman walking into the grocery store today...she was pregnant and wearing a t-shirt that read "I should have given him a BLOWJOB!" I discussed this with a friend shortly after and we decided that this would be a good shirt to send to the Palin family in case Bristol would be interesting in sporting it on the campaign trail. What do you think?
That's it. I'm out.
