After quite the unfortunate, and nearly two-year hiatus, I have decided that I am back – wholly and completely. I am not back for just a few weeks, to make some rather indifferent types of posts, but instead, I’m back for the long run, the long haul, whatever phrase pleases you most. I missed this, missed writing, missed keeping in touch.

Due to the unfortunate fact that I managed to go two-years without writing, there is a reasonable amount of catching up that needs to be done. As I’m sure you have assumed, reader, I have done some growing and accomplishing in these past 730 days.

We’ll start with the simple things: I still live in the same area: the Tri-State Area. I am still interested in things like books, politics, and food, and I still have a penchant for trying to create a place for online arguments. I am still in pursuance of becoming a writer, and one that is actually read. (I have to admit though, that although I am currently writing something I’m completely engrossed with, the outlook of it – or anything else I have written – being published anytime soon is grim due to a multitude of factors.)

Now, to become a bit more current. I am now a graduate! A college graduate who holds a Bachelor of Arts in English, with a focus in Writing, and a minor in Political Science. It’s a mouthful, really, but a mouthful that will hopefully land me in some sort of job. At the time of this writing, I am presently unemployed from my job working in a meat department alongside burly butchers, from the throws of the corporate world as a corporate communications intern, and unemployed from the world of knowledge where I toyed with fancy intranets and trained others in customer relation management systems. I have, however, submitted exactly one-hundred-and-twelve job applications, and completed four interviews in the last two months. Fingers crossed.

I wish I had some sort of fantastic excuse for my two-year long hiatus though. It would be rather exciting to be able to say I was overseas, participating in some fellowship – studying the current treatment of adolescent girls in small, less technologically advanced, Middle Eastern villages. However, I have been here all this time, somewhere in New Jersey, just keeping a bit too quiet.