Blog goes LIVE!

I have finally reached the point I can justify blogging. I defended my thesis, moved across country, and found minimal employment. Thus, with one month until my 25th birthday, I felt today was the day to take this blog LIVE! I've already posted a few things, and I don't really know what it means to take a blog LIVE. I figure just saying that it is now LIVE is good enough.

LIVE

I'm running out of time to post this on the 27th, I've got to hurry. It's important because in one month I will officially begin my Quarter Life Crisis (QLC for short). I first heard of it in a John Mayer song back in high school. Say what you will about his mediocre music, I still love to pretend it's my body he thinks is a wonderland. sigh... Anyway, one of his songs mentions a quarter life crisis, and I remember at the time thinking 25 was when you finally got old. I first said it to piss my older sister off, but I did believe that. Today it dawns on me that indeed I got old. Let the crisis commence.

I'm not sure what this QLC will entail, but I'm ready to document my progress in this blog. It will officially begin on October 27th, and it will continue on indefinitely. I've been preparing for it by spending a lot of time contemplating the question: Am I an adult now?

The answer to that question is complicated: My parents are still paying some of my bills. I don't really have a career. But I do have a masters degree, and I moved over a thousand miles away from home. Basically, all I know is, fuck if I know.

What I do know for sure is that I'm scared. There are a zillion reasons to be scared, such as the economy, the high unemployment rate, the war, etc... But more importantly, I know that I am optimistic. Critically optimistic that is. The philosophy of critical optimism will be the focus of this blog, beyond the QLC.

Anywho, my deadline is fast approaching, I will will close this introductory post with a video I hope to discuss in much greater detail in the future:



LOVE,
me