I’m sitting at work trying my best to avoid the temptations of online celebrity gossip and get to work on the very last classroom assignment of my academic career. You’d think that considering this is the last assignment I have to complete before I can get down to brass tacks on my thesis, I’d be gung-ho to finish it, but no. I’m doing a directed study with an unresponsive prof and writing this paper feels like trying to make my way through a Jennifer Lopez movie. It’s painful and seemingly pointless.
I figured that now was as good a time as any to start this blog. I’ve been waiting for something (what? I don’t know) to push me to begin this bad boy, and realized today that procrastination is a great, if not the best, reason to do so. I’ve had a blog with Livejournal for almost three years now, and I’m tired of it, and I want to ‘close that chapter’ in my life and move on (for lack of a less cheezy explanation). I’m not entirely sure who will read this (if anyone), but I’ve found that having an outlet (that is attached to a keyboard, specifically) in which to unload whatever it is I’m doing, thinking, and what have you, is important to me. So here we go.
That said, if there is anyone out there who has come across this and has a real burning desire to write a paper on the changing discourse of tattooing practices, get in touch with me.
