I've been thinking lately that I want to create some sort of online presence. I should say, re-create, because I did try this awhile back, but I think I had one reader (thanks Jen!), largely because I didn't actually tell anyone that I was blogging, and I eventually just lost my motivation. Most of my current motivation comes from having written (actually, typed) a lot of journal entries, as well as having read a lot of useful, inspiring blogs lately. But, there are other reasons too.
1) I read a lot of parenting blogs, which have helped me A LOT in the past year, and I sort of want to give back a bit. Since we've now made it through our first year as parents, I'm asked a lot parenting questions, so here's a place to compile some advice, information, thoughts etc.
2) I'm nearing the end of my Ph.D. I'll be defending within a year (hopefully summer 2011... well, hopefully earlier, but likely not until at least then). This means that a) I know a whole bunch of stuff about graduate school and being a graduate student, b) I know a whole bunch of stuff about science, c) I'm going to be going through some major challenges in the next while, and maybe this is a good place to sort through them (or at least vent).
3) I like giving advice. But, I know that people don't always want to hear advice. So, it occurred to me that maybe I can just write down all of my thoughts, ideas, tips and stuff that I've learned, and people can choose to read it if they want. I'm just writing it to get it out of my head because I need some of that brain space to prepare for my thesis defense.
Here are some problems that I foresee with this blogging endeavor:
1) I'm a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to writing. I can see myself taking forever to get blog posts to a state I'm happy with, which sort of defeats the purpose. I'm going to try not to do that.
2) I'm really, really busy, so taking on a new hobby seems, well, stupid.
3) Does anyone really care?
We'll see...
Nicole
