This blog started as a way to chronicle my semester “abroad” in LA…and escape from the dreaded LiveJournal I had let die. Somehow once I got to LA, however, this blog fell to the back of my mind. Between two internships, three classes, nights out, birthdays, and trips to Vegas, I couldn’t put words to page…or screen to write about my experiences

Then I had a mini crisis of…I don’t know what to call it. Let’s just say, I started to question whether the fast LA life was the life for me. That was not so good considering I had my whole LA life already planned out and was doing everything I could to make it a reality.

My blog then became about the process of deciding what I really wanted to do with my life. I whined about that for a while before finally being accepted into Teach for America, which sent me in a completely different direction and had me giving up blogging again, as I found it hard to write in between staying awake after standing all day, grading papers, and actually spending some amount of time with regular adult people.

NOW…my blog is back to that whole what do I want to do phase, as I possibly come to the end of my time in the classroom and contemplate where I want to go next.

Why blog about it? Well, I’ve been blogging off and on since I was 13. I originally taught myself html so I could make an *NSYNC fansite. Yep, I was a pretty cool kid. In my defense, I didn’t start that journey alone. My best friend at the time was in on it with me. I did, however, quickly start up my own personal website, which morphed into more fan sites (one of which may or may not have been about a certain trainwrecked pop princess), another personal website, and two domains to host that personal website. I made some blogger friends and became pretty popular. Eventually, I got to be a busy teenager who didn’t have time to write HTML code into the night. I moved over to livejournal, more to keep in touch with my friends after moving than to keep up with my online friends.

When I got accepted into the LA program, I found myself missing my website building days and wishing I still had a blog to write about this time in my life. Luckily, I still had some skills and knowhow to set up this little ditty. I found a few of my old daily blogs to look to for inspiration on how to be a blogger when you aren’t fourteen, and now, here I am again, except this time I’m not contemplating how to get readers from my site to read the eight page thesis I wrote about seeing *NSYNC in Kentucky.

The Naming Convention Situation: I’ve been known to say the word “situation” a bit too much in my daily vocabulary – similar to Rob Lowe’s character on Parks and Rec and his love of hte word “literally.” Thus, I felt it would make it a nice little naming situation – plus, I’m terrible at thinking of blog titles, and this makes things considerably easier. Win win.