On Writing

I'm amazed to find that, according to trusty Google Analytics, people still check this blog, at least 5 people a day! Mostly they seem to be referrals from other sites or people who are looking for real experiences abroad. One query that led here was "stories from people who have hiked the Milford Track", and I cannot tell you how very satisfying that specificity is.

I'm still working on finding a life after graduation, but I've got some good leads. Soon I'm going to be writing for Examiner.com, a website with all sorts of articles by regular people. It's meant to be an insider's guide to whatever local thing you happen to be looking up. My particular niche will be Madison travel writing. I hope it pans out, and also that I can find some funds to obtain a digital SLR camera of my own to supplement anything I write here or there.

Yesterday I went sailing on Lake Mendota again. It was a warm, calm day, so we sailed lazily from one end of the lake to the other and back again, opting for casualness and Bud Light Limes over the sailing race we'd actually taken the boat out for. Can you imagine a better way to spend a summer evening?

In a bit over two weeks I'll be off to Disney World again, and I'm sure I'll have something to say about that magical place. My roommate is insisting that I supplement the trip with a copy of Carl Hiaasen's Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World. We'll see how that goes. In the meantime, I'm still enjoying Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything, which has me appreciating the idiosyncratic history of science, and which has also instilled in me a very deep paranoia regarding asteroids.