hmm, i don't even really know what to say after not posting for over 3 months, by far my longest dormancy. it's just one of those things where big things in life happen, bigger than blogging. as anyone who's at all close to me already know, i got married july 22nd and left for the honeymoon shortly after. everything's gone great, luckily, and i look forward to a long life with my beautiful wife.

we were obviously incredibly swamped with events leading up to the wedding, although i had ample time to post here. i feel like i just didn't have anything more to add, and i really admit to this entire concept being increasingly difficult given that i have no idea how many (read: few) people are reading any of these posts.

i don't want to take the blog offline, i've valued using this as a good space to vent life's frustrations, provide updates on life happenings (in lieu of emails) and link to interesting/funny sites since 2003. i don't know if it's just a trend with my small circle of friends lately or more of a widespread phenomenon, but people just don't seem to be blogging as much these days, at least nothing that really holds that much interest consistently. i certainly enjoy reading my friends' blogs, but it's kind of hard not to get discouraged and wonder if any of it's really worth it.

i admit that i don't really ever know what to talk about here. typically i find something i like writing about and post strictly stream-of-consciousness comments about it, although most posts don't really relate to each other. i'd say that's probably the case because there's no one particular topic that i'd like to solely base this site on. maybe some kind of tag system would help that, i dunno.

i'm willing to bet you could look at college students' online habits before and after they graduate and notice that things really fall off post-graduation. i felt like in 2003-04 i had so much to just rant about (sometimes to my own detriment) related to college life and how frustrated and emotional i was at the time. now with the exception of the excitement in getting married, working life gets to be very mundane quickly. at times you have to just create interesting things to bother typing up a post about seemingly nothing, simply to have something to put online in hopes that it keeps some semblance of an audience entertained.

i don't want to draw this post out too long so soon, so stick around for more posts here soon.

--justin