Back from Hibernation

I had almost forgotten about this blog. I'm not much of a blogger, the main function of it for me, I guess, would be to serve as a diary or where I would make journal entries. I also think I started a blog because I got caught up in the hype, where everyone had a blog and if you didn't have one, well you felt left out :) از غافله عقب موندی

Yes, I also started this blog to practice my Farsi writing. But the main reason why I started this blog, to be honest, is because I wanted to sort out and dump on paper (so to speak) all my rambling thoughts. Maybe this way I could organize them better. You know how sometimes, you are thinking about something and you know you are engaging in an interesting topic, argument or conversation in your head, but then you either lose your train of thought and other thoughts get in the way or you can't clearly articulate thoughts and ideas in your mind. That's why many times people think they have something great to say because they have thought about it, but when they actually verbalize it, it doesn't sound as good a when it was in their heads.

So, I was hoping a blog would serve that purpose for me: force me to articulate my thoughts, oh yes, and also to practice writing. That's also important to me.

OK, so my child is still awake and is refusing to take his nap, gotta go put him to bed again - oh yeah, that's one major thing that happened during my long (blog) hibernation, I have a son now :) he is a toddler and I am a PhD mom... what was I thinking?? :)

(I'm back, where was I?)

But why did I stop writing in my blog? Of course, aside from the many events that happened in my life, some reasons could be: I'm a very private person and I don't like people to read my blog and know my thoughts, but then why start a blog in the first place? That's a good question, but I guess I have to stop being so shy and paranoid about privacy (I was brought up this way) and if I want to articulate myself and have my opinion heard, I have to get over it. But of course, I can still keep my identity private and hidden behind an anonymous blog and writing vaguely about my life. I also don't mind getting some feedback on my thoughts and comments from the world out there, of course nothing grateful or disrespectful, constructive criticism would be the best method to display disagreement.

The thing is, I have only recently opened a Facebook account. Again because I'm a private person and hate the fact that Facebook is mainly a tool for people to brag about themselves and their lives and/or snoop in the lives of others. Anyway, I only opened it after some people in my field told me that it is imperative that I have an account for networking purposes and that I should keep it very professional. So, that is what I did and I hope to keep it as professional as possible.