Gather 'Round

     This is the introduction post. The "Who Am I" post.
   
     I have tried my hardest, possibly still unsuccessfully, to avoid the awkward 'I've copy and pasted this from a dating website' vibe that readers so often have to deal with when it comes to introductions in online material. (And sometimes satirically on the inside cover of a book with the authors bio).

     From a young age, or at least as far back as I can remember, I wanted to be a storyteller.

     The rest of my life can basically be traced back to this one simple desire. To tell stories.

    My major and hopefully future career path? Anthropology, the study of people and the cultures both past and present. The field that most interested me within anthropology was ethnography, the telling of peoples stories.

     My obsession? Books. Reading and writing. I feel as though this is pretty obvious how it relates to the desire to be a storyteller.

     My passion? Photography. A picture is worth a thousand words, and its a lot of fun to try to tell a story within those thousand words. Every picture I take, and I've taken some 10,000+ (though I've deleted about 2/3rds of them) have a story behind them.

     My hobbies? Walking. Biking. Hiking. Camping. Backpacking. Rock Climbing. Scuba Diving (Eventually). Now while these all might not immediately bring up the idea of storytelling, the goal of all of them is to get me out into the world. Where are interesting stories made or found, sitting in front of a computer or television screen or out there [at this point please look out your nearest window]?

     I suppose that just makes this blog my digital campfire, where friends and strangers can gather 'round and listen to me tell my stories. Guess you guys'll be needing [these].

     ~Tim

Inarticulate Ramblings

     So having derided myself for my general lack of improvement in my life I'm doing this. 

     What is this? Good question. I have no idea. Really.

     This is simply the inarticulate ramblings of a 20something year old trying to figure out what it is life is going to hold in store. Its a blog. 

     I have tried blogging before. Embarrassingly quite a few times. With exception of one, all have died a slow, quiet and painless death. The reason is almost unquestionable and unavoidable that I get distracted away from them and forget about them until they have rotted away to the point I see no purpose in trying to revitalize them. 

     Mistakes I've made before:

1. Kept the blog a secret
2. Stopped posting regularly because no one was reading
3. Quit

     How I'm going to avoid my mistakes:

1. I'm going to do some PR work. Facebook. Friends. Random Internet Strangers. 
2. I'll post regularly. Even if people HATE what it is I'm writing, they'll still have read it. I do want people to read it though.
3. I'll try not quitting. . . that's easy enough right?

     So basically this is a jumbled mess of words meant force me into action. I'll be posting this and showing some friends who will force me to stay on task and do something with it. (Hopefully)

     Its a rough start to a rough blog that I hope to polish over time. 

     Feel free to join. 

     

     ~Tim