breaking the champagne bottle

I'm not exactly a diary-keeper by nature. I can attest to that by the dozens of abandoned journals and diaries of various quality that I didn't even fill a quarter of the way. And while blogging and keeping a diary aren't exactly the same thing, I'm still wondering if I can keep up a blog any better than I could actually sit still long enough to write even one page in a journal.

Here's to hoping. If all else, here's to a memorial to procrastination.

Anyway, aside from a disclaimer about my utter lack of commitment to anything ever, this blog is kind of a storage place (at least in intention) for writing purposes, storage of all things historical, and a musing platform. If it can fulfill even one of these purposes, I'll actually find it in myself to be proud of it. I write fiction of several stripes, I'm an archaeology student, and I can't keep my head quiet for two minutes. You would think blogging would come naturally to me in this case, but it doesn't. Maybe it will.

I'm going to try to be as unpretentious as possible in this. I've read blogs aplenty that spend about 90% of their time on exposition of a topic, throw out a few thesis buzzwords, and then finally get to the bottom enough to scrape at it. I don't want to be a Snooty McSnotwhine about anything that I write, because admittedly, and not meaning this in a boohoo-poor-me sense, I'm not a master on any particular subject or thing. I like writing because I find it fun. Some topics in history make me happy. I'm a simple creature and if this blog ever becomes something I can return to repeatedly, that's going to become ridiculously clear.

This is, in essence, a totally self indulgent thing. I'm a chatterbox by nature. I infodump like someone's paying me to do it. I'll talk anyone's ear off about something I'm interested in. And in the end, I just really like to write. This might as well be the place to cover all my bases and keep my pleasure centers happy.

So, here's to maybe or maybe not doing this on the regular. Oof.

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  1. Randall OsczevskiSeptember 27, 2017 at 7:21 AM

    The entry for Sarah in the 1841 census gives her age as 45, not 65. The down stroke of the 4 extends below the line, as does the down stroke in the 9 farther down the page. Ages were often estimated by the census takers. If she died in 1854 at age 61, she would have been 48 during the 1841 census.

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    1. ACReynardSeptember 28, 2017 at 6:47 AM

      Thank you very much! I've corrected this in the original post!

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