{"id":69,"date":"2005-05-19T20:11:13","date_gmt":"2005-05-20T00:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2005\/05\/19\/life-in-the-silent-moments\/"},"modified":"2006-04-28T12:39:13","modified_gmt":"2006-04-28T19:39:13","slug":"life-in-the-silent-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2005\/05\/19\/life-in-the-silent-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"Life in the Silent Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here at last is the long awaited COMPETITIVE POST…<\/p>\n

A few qualifications before you start judging though.\u00a0 First, I’m writing this from work after a very long couple of weeks.\u00a0 Second, I’m a little strung out on coffee…well, tea lattes<\/a> actually, but being strung out on tea lattes doesn’t sound very cool.\u00a0 Oh, and\u00a0my brain hurts a little.\u00a0 You know.\u00a0 From\u00a0all the thinking and whatnot.\u00a0 Or maybe it’s the cell-phone induced tumor<\/a>.\u00a0 Also,\u00a0the dog ate my homework.\u00a0 In any case, I know there’s no way that whatever I write will live up to the build-up.\u00a0 The best I can do is hope you’re not too disappointed by the backstory to this blog.\u00a0\u00a0With all those things in mind, here we go:\u00a0<\/p>\n

Imagine it.\u00a0 Cambridge, circa 2004.\u00a0 I’m graduating from law school.\u00a0\u00a0My friends and I\u00a0are scattering to the far corners of the world.\u00a0 And by that I mean California, Chicago, DC, and New York.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

This blog actually started as a series of emails that I sent to close friends (read, “anyone who I thought would remember my name after graduation”) in the summer of 2004 (because anything is better then studying for the Bar).\u00a0 It eventually dawned on me that my close friends may not want to receive daily emails about what I had for lunch, the state of my hair, or the purse I was currently coveting.\u00a0 This epiphany came about after I received comments from my friends about how they did not want daily emails about what I had for lunch, the state of my hair, or the purse I was currently coveting.\u00a0 At that moment, a blog was born.\u00a0 (*Cue music*)<\/p>\n

Throughout the many months of maintaining this site, I’ve learned a lot of interesting things.\u00a0 For one thing,\u00a0people\u00a0are oddly fond of cartoon sheep<\/a>.\u00a0 More importantly, I’ve learned that I really like writing this blog and,\u00a0somewhat surprisingly, there are people out there who actually seem to like reading it.\u00a0 Clearly, my narcissism is\u00a0now totally\u00a0justified.\u00a0 =)\u00a0 Strangely enough, I’ve also come to develop an unexpected sense of responsibility towards y’all.\u00a0 Sometimes I write when I’m disinclined to just because I haven’t in too long and occasionally, as I go through my day, I think, “Hmm.\u00a0 I should write about that.”\u00a0 (Although this doesn’t happen all that often as my life is woefully uneventful.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

I started writing as a means of keeping in touch with far-flung friends.\u00a0 Or at least keeping them informed of what’s going on in my life (I can only hope they do the same).\u00a0\u00a0Having moved\u00a0multiple times over the past decade, and inevitably leaving good friends behind, I’ve come to realize that it’s the day to day interactions that keep friendships alive.\u00a0 I get\u00a0phone calls or emails when someone’s engaged, pregnant, moving, or graduating, but between those moments are vast stretches of silence.\u00a0 Those silences make up a life moreso then the noisy defining moments though, and it’s in those silences that friendships and relationships are lost.\u00a0 So that was the real reason I started this blog and the real reason I love reading blogs in general.\u00a0 I find the minutiae of my friends’ lives fascinating because it\u00a0makes me feel like I’m still a part of their existence, despite the distance, and that they’re still a part of mine.\u00a0 I hope\u00a0you all\u00a0feel the same way reading this blog.\u00a0<\/p>\n

(Frog<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Wombat<\/a>, consider the very long-winded gauntlet thrown.)\u00a0 =)\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here at last is the long awaited COMPETITIVE POST… A few qualifications before you start judging though.\u00a0 First, I’m writing this from work after a very long couple of weeks.\u00a0 Second, I’m a little strung out on coffee…well, tea lattes actually, but being strung out on tea lattes doesn’t sound very cool.\u00a0 Oh, and\u00a0my brain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends-family-and-everyone-in-between","category-this-little-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}