So today I decided that its time for a new blog .... and was musing about appropriate names. Its always good to start a new blog. Its like starting a new identity ....just see what happens. Also, i decided that I need to be much more informal. I guess it comes with age ....
So how do you name a blog .... well, depends what you want to accomplish ....and this one is really not about accomplishing anything in particular. Just a stream of consciousness ... So the first word is confessions ... Why confessions ... it sounded good. Confessions are in. Actually, not too long ago ( a few years? long is relative) I read
The Confessions of St. Augustine. I think I read it a long time ago, but then, I really didn't remember much and so, I think I REALLY read it (as in studying what it said) only a few years ago. And I was impressed. This guy could easily have written it in the last few decades, except that is usually placed around between AD 397 and AD 398, so that's like 1600+ years ago. And so I chose confessions. [I am not a celebrity and there's nothing juicy going on, so if you're looking for that ... it ain't here babe ...].
That I ? physicist' is part of existence [at least in this 4D slice of the universe], and so physicist had to go in the title. It could have been something else, but physicist is part of the story ... ? stands for something like am or was or will be or had been or wanted to be --- So now I am looking for an adjective... So what should that adjective be? I thought about 'reformed', but that wasn't quite it, and recovering has a certain appeal, Miriam (Webster) offers this:
recovering adjective
: in a state in which you have stopped or are trying to stop a behavior (such as drinking alcohol or using drugs) that you have been doing for a long time and that is harmful to you
: being in the process of overcoming a disorder or shortcoming <a recovering alcoholic> <a still-bookish recovering academic with a tendency to live in his head — Jon Spayde>
That last part sounds pretty interesting "recovering academic with a tendency to live in his head"
I might be doing some of that, or may have done some or a lot of that. I just never thought of being a physicist and "being in the process of overcoming being a physicist" or "being a physicist" as a disorder, or "being a physicist" as a shortcoming. Just goes to show that one has to expand one's horizons .....
But this offers SO much promise, and so many openings, that I am sticking with my recovering physicist shtick.
and that's the first blog entry .... maybe there will be more ...
