Hello world.
It's New Year's Eve, and at this point in time, I'm thinking about how great it would be to start a personal blog; it has been an exceptionally long time since the last time I tried this blogging thing. I'm not entirely sure what I plan on writing in this, how long I'll continue it, how often I'll update, or anything else. What I do know is that I have thoughts about lots of topics, and I would like to share those thoughts with everyone (or just with the two or three people who happen to across this).
Here's a little about myself. I'm a 28-year-old graduate student at the University of Illinois. I've spent a tremendous amount of time in school (four years in undergrad, and six-and-a-half in grad school); I'm pretty sure that I'm finally ready to come out of my cocoon and into the real world and become—as we in graduate school like to call it—a real person, and one of these days, maybe I will. It's all a very scary proposition to me, but it has to happen someday, right? In the meantime, I've just got to keep my head down, publish some papers, and work on my dissertation.
Well, as I mentioned, it's New Year's Eve, and in America that means important college football games are on. Right now Clemson is playing Oklahoma, it's the fourth quarter of that game with Clemson in the lead 37-17. The winner of that game will go on to play the winner of the Michigan State-Alabama game that starts immediately afterwards in the National Championship Game. For those who don't know me very well, I'm going to be sitting here on the edge of my seat praying to whatever may or may not be out there that MSU proves everyone wrong and beats Alabama. I think I'm going to go get my mind ready for that now.
Cheers!
JK
