Back in college, I used to keep a blog. Actually, it was a Livejournal account, back before back before blogs were a thing and when Livejournal was still cool. Due to the lifetime Livejournal account that I purchased sometime around 2006 (a sound investment!), I still hang around there once in a while and read over the years of entries that I wrote. Mostly it’s just accounts of my day-to-day life, but there are also photos from trips, snippets of AIM conversations, and inside jokes that I hardly understand anymore. Only my friends and my Mom ever read it, as far as I know, but I loved writing it at the time and now I love having it as a time capsule of a particular time in my life. Which is not to say that I love it enough to let anyone else read it anymore. It is way too embarrassing!
Recently I started thinking about writing a blog again. This month I moved from Binghamton, NY where I had been living for just over six years, to Cambridge, MA. Aside from a few months spent studying abroad, this is the first time I’ve lived outside of New York and the first time I’ve lived in a large city. My sister and I came up with the idea around Christmas time that we would move to the Boston area at the same time and getting an apartment together. The circumstances aren’t perfect — I gave up a job that I really liked and my sister now has a long commute — but we have a feeling that it’s going to be worth it!
So this blog will be for this time in my life what my Livejournal was for my college years (but with fewer lame memes, I promise). I’ll be living with my sister, exploring a new city, and searching for a new career, so I want to be recording these times. You know — for science!
For Science! 