Redirected

You can see from the initial post here that the blog has been up for a couple of weeks, although if you were trying to visit by going to chrishigginbotham.com, you still got the away message because I hadn't programmed the redirect. I hadn't done that yet because it wound up taking longer than I expected to get the Internet installed at the new apartment; the horse hadn't had a need for it prior to my arrival here.



Yeah, so school is already tough, even though we're only three weeks in. I'm not sure if it's just a tough semester or if it's because I'm actually putting as much effort into it as I should have all along. I'd give anything to be a speed-reader...



I told you this was gonna get boring...



So I've been doing a lot of research on a study I'm doing (along with what could very well be thousands of other people) about the Obama campaign and I came across a pretty cool site associated with the Washington Post that has a lot of useful info about administration officials and other key players in Washington. Check it out at whorunsgov.com. I especially like that the profile of Gen. George Casey has his birthday listed as not applicable. Funny...



I was accused of having an ellipses problem by a friend of mine. I'm gonna work on that...

Happy New Year

Hey, Folks!

My goal was to write the first post on January 1st, but I was unable to get to an Internet connection that day. I had to work late on New Year's Eve, then decided to head up to Raleigh to see some of my old friends to ring in the new year. The result was that I was at the 75-mile marker on US 1 when 2008 ended. That was partially by intent though; 2008 was a year of transition for me (understatement), so it was actually kinda poetic that I should say farewell to it... well, in transit. I was listening to Bruce Springsteen at midnight, even though I really don't like him very much, but Glory Days seemed like a good song to listen to at the time - or, at least, it was the most appropriate song available on my iPod.

It's a new year, and a good time to put the blog back up, but I've decided not to re-post all the stuff I wrote in 2008. Last year was a pretty tough year and things were hitting me more quickly than I could figure out the best way to talk about them here. The result was that it got a little more personal than a blog with my name in big letters at the top (and in the address) should ever have gotten. So, what I'm basically saying here is that the blog is about to become supremely boring, as I tell you about all the mundane and completely sterile details of my life. Of course, if you thought the blog was boring before, then this isn't much of a change for you...

School starts in a week at UNC, but I don't have classes on Mondays, so it starts in eight days for me. I have a four-day weekend every week. Not bad for a guy turning 29 in a few weeks, but I do still have to do work for my fellowship all week. I also have a new apartment with ten four-legged roommates. It's built into a horse stable in Chapel Hill. It's small and I had to employ scorched-earth tactics to battle the spiders, but it really has a lot of potential. I kinda feel like Patrick Swayze in Roadhouse, except I don't drink coffee...

Anyway, I'm not sure how often I'll be writing here, or what it is I'll be writing about, but I definitely felt like it was time to put something up. Happy New Year!