If you click back to the first post of this blog, you’ll see that I started wandering apricot when I started graduate school. It was to celebrate a fresh start. I did the same (several times, I think!) in college, when I abandoned and then restarted blogs for travel abroad, the thesis, so on and so forth.
Now I am getting started in earnest on the dissertation, albeit at the beginning of the process (prospectus, oral exams). I am also planning to move in a few months or so. I feel the need to change.
I am going to leave this blog intact. Actually, from now on, I am going to gear this blog towards dance: a record of my progress, as well as posts here and there about adult ballet and ballet generally. It’s surprising to me that I am getting thousands of hits from people looking for information about hyperextension, insteps, etc., and so I wouldn’t like to simply delete this blog. And I expect that dance is going to take up more and more of my non-academic hours this summer and in the coming year, so there should be plenty to discuss.
As for the new blog, it can be found at http://asitwas.tumblr.com , and it will be focused on the rest of my life. I chose tumblr because of its gorgeous designs, as well as its ease of use. It is substantially more limited than wordpress, and seems geared more towards a fast, short, twitter, brief post style. But I think this is perfect for me, because increasingly, I have less and less to say about my own life, and I think that it will be more easily summarized in a few sentences or photos from time to time. To wit: I am getting less verbose about my own life. This is good for everyone, I think.
The tumblr blog will also be more focused on my work than my own life. This may change, but I rather like the idea of using the tumblr blog as a journal of my studies, replete with photos.
It will also be easier to post comments, particularly for anonymous commentators.
So: come and see!
