When I wrote the inaugural post of this blog on July 3, 2011, I was preparing to leave Boise, head out for a stint on an organic farm in New Mexico, and possessed of the vague notion that I might, possibly, just maybe, wind up in Austin, Texas.
Well, here it is, April 10, 2012, and here I am, in Austin, Texas, where I did in fact wind up. Some things have happened since I wrote that first blog post:
· I finally, officially graduated with a Bachelor’s degree, thus concluding an epic saga twelve years in the making.
· I volunteered at an organic farm in New Mexico for roughly three days. I originally intended to stay for two weeks.
· I got lost in Navajo Nation en route to said organic farm.
· My cat family and the realization that I was way too thirty-one-years-old to be bunking with two early-twenty-somethings in the throes of True Love hastened my departure from said organic farm.
· I secured a (yet another, throughout the on-again, off-again course of the last decade) library gig here in Austin.
· I accepted my fate and finally applied to library school.
· Since embarking on this blog, I’ve written up a blue streak: here, elsewhere, and approximately 41,000 words of a failed novel
· I decided to self-publish my first novella and am making active strides toward doing so.
· I decided to see if evacuating civilization (well, not really, but this move is closer to doing anything like that than I’ve ever been) is really what I want and signed a six-month lease to live on five rural acres in Georgetown, Texas.
And that last point brings me to, well, my point. I’ve had a swell time documenting the highs and lows (and low-highs and high-lows) of this Austin transition, but let’s face it: this blog has run its course. I’m no longer on the road, for one thing; for another, I’ve been in Austin for nearly a year now. I can’t run around pretending to be a neophyte forever.
So, onward, and upward, and I’m off to find love, as Nick Cave once crooned and as Sparty so beautifully embodies here:
Thus begins a new chapter. Thus begins a new blog. I will be compulsively chronicling my bucolic frolics here:
Save the link, kids!
And, for the sake of having a repository for nonsequiturs, I will be toying around with this and that here (or there):
Because WordPress is where it’s at, man.
Thank you for reading, those of you who read, thanks for your support, those of you who supported, and thanks to all of you who I’ll be seeing over at the new blogs.
More to follow soon!