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June 8, 2005
The Return of the Blog
I suppose I should mention that I'm home in Oregon. Yes, the junior paper got finished. No, I still haven't really finished unpacking. Yes, I'm leaving for Aspen in a week.
In the meantime, in addition to a healthy dose of doing nothing important, I've been sorting papers and reorganizing my bookshelves, a project long overdue and made especially urgent by the four boxes of books I sent home from school. Turns out I don't really need my calculus book at school anymore, for instance, and if I do come to need one for some bizarre reason, it's relatively easily obtainable via Cabot library, or, failing that, the United States Postal Service.
The theme, therefore, which I alluded to in my previous post, is "clearing out the attic." Turns out I have a lot of stuff I've been meaning to tell you about, dear reader, from some thoughts on the new Pope to various quips from daily life. Some of this I've forgotten, some of this will occur to me in four weeks, some of it is no longer relevant, and some of it I've actually made note of and the likelihood of me blogging about it is high.
Especially if I get back into the habit of doing this. When I wasn't feeling swamped (see also, the month of May; my roommates will be quick to notice the significant distinction between feeling swamped and actually being swamped, as I'm typically the former first, leading quickly to the latter as my feeling swamped destroys my ability to focus), I found that blogging, despite its nominal status as a "distraction," actually helped me to focus on work etc. by providing a place for me to voice tangential thoughts. It also tended to be a good transition into "productive mode."
This summer is extremely important for my work on the bassoon. But it's also an extremely important summer for me personally. Intellectually, emotionally, and artistically, the past year has been very...experimental. Now I think it's time to take the results of that experimentation and get it out in the field. Which is why the point of this blog is to get stuff out to you, whoever you may be. Just by doing that, I force my little mental experiments and fancies into the real world.
Posted by David Richmond at June 8, 2005 2:08 AM EDT
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