I am relaunching AccidentlyRetro, a blog I imagined when I was just 25 years old, a new resident of San Francisco, and loving my first job post-academic teaching life at a dot-com. The couches and ping-pong tables and keggers on Fridays were in full swing, and I wanted to be a part of everything.
Fast forward to 20 years later. I now work as an ICU nurse; I’ve been married and divorced; I lost myself to depression and PTSD for a time. But here I am, back again to claim my place on the internet. Even if all I ever do is scream into the void, I know at least the void is listening.
And if you’re reading this, now you are too. Let’s take a look at what inspired my sudden return to the world of the writer– a trip on the Wayback Machine recommended by my therapist…
I was so nostalgic–so happy and sad at the same time, which I guess must be the most basic definition of nostalgia itself–that I immediately searched to see what was at that website now. Turns out nothing… Probably because it is such an, ahem, alternate spelling of “accidently/accidentally.”
So here I am, domain purchased. Designing a WordPress blog, writing my first post. I did decide to jump ship on Blogger, which was my OG platform, but alas– not everything cam remain the same. One thing that is definitely different: my grammar has deteriorated significantly. What can I say? It’s less important now that I’m a nurse. I know the mechanism of action of a LOT more drugs though. *wink wink*
As I scrounge around the Internet archives, I will likely try to pull out some old gems from 2001-2004. We can look forward to those. In the meantime, let’s see what happens.