East Coast Girls Are Hip

These past three years have been a huge time of transitioning, learning, and growing.  As my boyfriend reminded me today, I am now officially a professor of creative writing.  Had it not been for Aaron, it may have taken me a few months to realize this and an additional month or two for it to sink in.  But, 'tis true, 'tis true.  (I'm still like:  "Wow." about it.)  And, as many of you are aware, I'll be moving out of this great state of Ohio soon.  Like soon soon.  

In order to keep my family and friends up-to-date as I start this new phase in my life, I have decided to create a new blog.  No deep thoughts, no unanswerable questions, just a simple this-is-what-I'm-up-to blog.  

If you're interested, come visit me in a few weeks at eastcoastgirlsarehip.blogspot.com.  (You can visit me there now, if you like, but it's a pretty blank slate.)  If you're not interested (which is perfectly understandable), I thank you for reading my blog here.  :)

Update

I will be on the blog again, soon.  

Just thought I'd let you know. 

:)

Apprehension

I'm thinking of starting a new blog.

I haven't decided what to do yet.

And who knows? I'm fickle.

I may decide that I'm not ready to start blogging again.

In the meantime, I'm prepping for a new space. I have one set up here on blogger but I'd like to know more about the other blog sites out there before I go live with a new blogger account.*

I have some friends on WordPress and I know some people who use LiveJournal. There are, of course, tons of free blogs out there now. If anyone has any yays or nays on certain sites, would you mind either shooting me an email or posting a comment? I'd really appreciate it.

* For the record: I just now set up my account. (Like, before I wrote this post.) I haven't even written any posts for it. It's just kind of there. I'm kind of excited about blogging though. A little, anyway. And I haven't been excited about blogging for a long time.

Repost because...

I am reposting this blog entry. I wanted to check it the other day to get some info. from one of my comments. (I have not reposted the comments, by the way.) However, in order to see my comments, I had to republish the original blog. In doing so, that messed up some blogrolls that I am still listed on. That is, it changed the title of my most recent post even though this post was not, actually, my most recent post. Nonetheless, it was technically my most recent post. So, Blogger wins.

And because Blogger wins and I managed to trip up some readers -- unintentionally, of course -- I'm going to repost this blog here.

The blog was originally posted December 1, 2007. This was back when this blog space was originally reserved for posting my writerly thoughts. Back then, I thought, this blog was better than what it later became. The writing, at least, was better. (And may I say, upon re-reading this entry, it still holds true. Perhaps even more so, these days.)

Well, before I go on too much (which is what led to this blog's demise in the first place), I'll go ahead and repost this entry, originally titled: In My Defense Mechanism

I told my brother-in-law this morning that it seems I am always disappointed. I must set the Hopes and Expectations Bar too high. It's not that I'm a Pessimist. On the contrary, I think it's my optimism that gets the best of me. I always think things are going to get better, and when they don't, I'm disappointed.

I am, at once, Perpetually Optimistic and Habitually Disappointed. Yet, in the end, I still hope that everything will be better next time.

I used to call myself Cautiously Optimistic. I was one of those people who expected the worst but hoped for the best. And even though I hoped for the best, the expecting the worst part made Disappointment more digestible. Not as disappointing.

As I write this, I notice how my philosophy has shifted over the past couple of years. I've gone from being A Pessimist in Denial to an Overactive Optimist.

Either way, I'm sure there is some sort of Defense Mechanism at play.

Either way, I think it's better to be an Overactive Optimist.

(Of course I do.)

Reconsidering

I'm still contemplating the blog.

There are very specific reasons why I won't blog here again. There are, however, specific reasons why I'm not blogging here right now, mainly because I have to finish my writing my thesis.

To whomever is sincerely interested (and I pretty much know who you are), I'll keep you posted via email.

In the meantime: Thanks bunches!