I met a charming, super-smart academic the other day, and participated in a workshop he was running on our campus. It turns out he's a blogger, and I was so excited to find out that Someone I Know in Real Life actually blogs (blogging appears to be a rare hobby around my campus) that I immediately shared my blogger existence with him as well. Or, to be more precise, I half-shared, confessing that I did have a pseudonymous blog but neglecting to mention where it was. I did tell him he was free to try to figure it out, since there's a little bit of overlap in our bloggy circles.

On the one hand, this was me being coy and vicariously enjoying the process of trying to suss out someone's secret identity; on the other hand, it was me being embarrassed that this blog hasn't been worth showing off, for quite a while now. (Ah, for the days of the wild parties and water slides and flaming peeps and tripping over sleeping bodies curled up in the corner of the bar at 3 am...) Little did y'all know that I once intended this to be an academic blog, and over the past few years I may have actually posed on academic-y topics two or three times. But then it turned into a bar blog, and who could resist hosting parties in the world's goofiest online bar? And then a couple of my blogging friends got into trouble for appearing less than perfectly professional to their colleagues (and not even for the drunken bar antics, go figure), and I got wary of writing too much about my professional life - the really juicy stuff was too far over the danger line.

So the content here has become overly watered down over the past many months, and I'm a little shy about exposing my inadequacies to my New Cool Friend (though I'm perfectly comfortable exposing them regularly to all of you). But hey, he's still a New Cool Friend, and he's more than welcome here, and maybe that will nudge me a little towards writing something of Greater Significance.

Or maybe I'll just post more pictures of food. One step at a time, you know.

Either way, New Cool Friend, if any of this sounds at all familiar, voila - you found me!