This blog has
been for nearly a year (the first posts were published the 18th of
April 2012), but since it is a new calendar year now, and I have had a taste of
a little bit of most things that I think await in the near future, I might as
well do some reflection over this blog so far. This will only be a quick,
superficial review, since many of the texts have been quite sporadic and
spontaneous (not to say arbitrary) in nature, so there is little sense in doing
some sort of in-depth scrutiny of values and limitations (and, frankly, because
that seems pretty dull to do on a blog…).
The fieldtrips
dominated the early months, and they were great fun and useful to write about. There
will be a few more fieldtrips in the future, including one in late March to
early April, so if you enjoyed these posts, more are to come, rest assured.
Next came more of a mix between random factual texts, stories from my voluntary
work as the museum and picture galleries from my forest ‘self-trips’. The
sporadic factual texts were partly to fill some spaces, and also to allow me to
write on whims and urges, so I will definitely keep those up. I do not work a
the museum any longer, but I am intending to search for some part-time work the
next term, and hope to have some interesting insights to bring from there too!
Then there was
the fell hiking trip. Epic. I truly hope there will be another this
summer. Finally, was the time when I
moved to Bristol, and there was a lot of things going on, not all related to
paleontology and/or worth writing about, so I had to fill the vacuum with some
old texts and stuff… I hope that has not been disturbing or devaluating – I
just wanted to keep you entertained while I could not produce new, fresh
material. Although, one unusual discussion did come up: the one about the dragonsand hippogriffs! I am sure more of those odd, on-the-verge-of-silly things
will come in the future.
The January
exams are only multiple choice, as I explained in an earlier post, so
there has not been any ‘point’ in thinking outside and about the box; this is
what I need to do for the end-of-year exams, though, and I find it good
practice to write down your musings in a blog or blog-like fashion, since it
makes you really think about your idea, and to check that you have thought
carefully about it, from as many angles as possible, and, finally taking the
essences out and explaining it to people less familiar with the subject.
Hopefully, you will see some original posts in short. Also, I hope this could
spark some discussions with fantastic ideas from your side!
Overall, it has
been really great to run this blog, which has encouraged me not only to keep
this going, but also to start the new blog The Bluest Ice about global
issues. Something I might add is that I was pleasantly surprised by how
(arbitrarily) well the content managed to relate to the title of the blog!
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