Huh?, or Late Night Verbosity

Welcome to The Shovelbum Memoirs. Herein you shall find the ramblings of a crazy graduate student in archaeology. Don't let the shovel fool you, I'm completely harmless...most of the time. I've recently moved to College Station/Bryan, Texas, to pursue my graduate career. Yes, I have become an Aggie. It's alright. I was a Tennessee Vol before. Feel free to commence the teasing.

It's my first night alone in my new apartment and I'm distracting myself by creating this blog. I've tried them before, but have never been able to keep up with them. I'm holding out hope that this one will be different, as I've recently realized I actually do have a lot to talk about. I also hope that these entries will be coherent and somewhat amusing. My only difficulty in accomplishing this will be my grammar skills. I am attempting to fend off the compulsion to send my blog entries to my "editor" for some serious red pen work.

Hi, Mom.

My mom has edited all my papers and articles since I began to hold a pencil and knows of my tendencies toward verbal diarrhea. My run-on sentences and convoluted paragraphs are infamous within my immediate family. I really get going on a subject I'm passionate about and the words will flow, but nothing will make very much sense. But, I have found I am not alone in my loquaciousness in the hallowed halls of post-graduate education. You know legalese? Academiaese is much, much worse and much, much harder to understand.

Ah, well, such is the life of a graduate student. It's filled with obscure articles and ideas that make one scratch their head and say, "Huh?"

To wander back to my point (of introducing this blog), I plan on writing about my life and whatever strikes my fancy. I'll warn you now, my life is odd, and trying to make sense of it is like poking a slobbering rhino with a stick.

It's not a good idea and just might be dangerous to your health.