"it's just raining... on my face."

Missed my 5-year blog anniversary. That's quite alright. Five years! That's sort of neat.

Happy Holidays (is the main point of this blog entry). Additionally, for the first time since I wrote this blog entry over a year and a month ago, I had a brand new elevator nightmare. Thought I was cured! Sad times are these. :oP I've actually been having quite the array of strange/disturbing/inappropriate-for-various-reasons dreams since arriving in Wiscaaansin for the holidays. I leave soon; wonder if they will stop happening?

In any case, toodles for now. Hope everyone's holidays are bright and here are abundant well-wishes for a smashing 2010.

Auf Wiedersehen,
Andrpant

in case of a new blog / brace yourself

Greetings, faithful followers!

Although the year has basically rocked for several awesome reasons, 2009 represents a shoddily-done job of blogging on my part. If you compare the number of posts total from prior years, you'll see how inattentive I have been. I guess 2007 came close with a mere 6 posts. 2007 was kind of a tough year. The minimal entries of 2009, however, indicate the opposite. I've been madly busy, especially in the past few months, and with all sorts of brilliantly-thrilling things. Suffice it to say, 2009 > 2007. And I'll leave it at that.

But even so, as I'm sitting here being both terribly vague and simply musing irrelevantly, I think it's worth mentioning (perhaps extolling, even) the excitement of the near-five years this blog has existed. That's history! Historical!? Well, it's long-term, man. I tend to think in terms of what I was doing a week, a month, a year, five years ago - and that sort of thinking I find fun. Three years ago, for example, well heck, I'd just come off of an abroad to England and was sitting at home jobless for a few months, mentally preparing to move to Boston. Five years ago, the boring part-time job in Ohio during winter break. I could go on, but that would just bore you.

Here's what I promise for 2010: more relevant blog entries. Topical entries! Entertaining entries. Informative entries. Sassier entries. I should potentially reconsider saying it's a promise for 2010 rather than just a goal, but I've been feeling so writerly lately that maybe it's good to make such promises, and hold myself to them.

Also, because I had no real purpose in blogging today other than to note how pathetically-low the blog count for 2009 was (and to perk it up by one!), I'm going to use the opportunity to shout out and redirect you to my twitter page. http://twitter.com/Andrle will take you on a journey of unrelenting randomness and even more irrelevance than you could ever hope to find here. Sometimes I post links to exciting articles. More often than not, however, it's a platform for me to mention coffee, work, being tired, and communicating briefly with those I hold dear (at least, the ones who are fellow-tweeters). You might get tidbits like "vacation!" or "submitted something for writing!" (more frequent as of late) in there as well. If you so choose to find me on twitter, do so having paid my warnings heed.

Other news: you may or may not be aware, but this blog is now linked to via www.LaNerd.com! Type that into your browser, click the attractive and mysterious elephant, and you'll be taken right back here. Thanks to lovely boyfriend, Nick.

And so I leave you on that note, properly linked, and happily able to move along to your next blog.

As always,
Andrle