goodbye 2011, hello new blog

     the end of the year always finds me in an introspective mood. because i am such a memory-packrat, having a tangible, concrete summation of “my year” is what i find myself searching for every december. i know soon there will be some online app that acts as a “life aggregator” that will comb through my internet presence and summarize my year in a way that is digestible and fun, but for now i am on my own.
     i decided to go through all of the footage that i shot on my iphone this year and cut together a simple montage of moments from 2011. when i was finally finished with the video i was a bit sad that the only place i could put it would be facebook or twitter, where it would inevitably be swept away in the unceasing stream of new updates. this is part of the reason why it seems so hard to look back at this year, because its all been buried. things like twitter have been instilling terrible habits in the way i share and receive information. i have become a reckless, irresponsible internet citizen, throwing my thoughts away into the bottomless pit of the internet. i do not feel the need to be responsible because everything just disappears. i thought i should start a personal blog for 2012 to force myself to be more engaged and more thoughtful with the things i talk about and the things i share, as well as a way for me to archive and make sense of my life. no more twitter word vomit. though actually, there probably will be plenty of vomit, i’m just hoping that the vomit will be more thought through.
     here’s to lots of thoughtful vomit in 2012.