Tweet This!

Yesterday, one of my students created a twitter account for me. Her reason is that it’s really cool, but she also felt that I couldn’t commit to this blog and tweeting would just be easier. So, with all sarcasm, @justsami10, thanks. Honestly, I don’t even know if I used the correct twitter style to write that #generationaldifference.

I guess there are a few reasons I’ve been missing in the blogoshpehere. One, I feel incredible pressure to be witty. We’ve discussed that already so I won’t go any further. Two, until Tiger and all of his prey, there really hasn’t been anything too interesting that I felt like writing about. Since I mentioned it, I’ll share a few thoughts on the Tiger situation: 1) Elin, since we have yet to see Tiger I take that as proof that you kicked his a$$- good for you!; 2) I really don’t care how many companies drop or keep Tiger as their spokesman- Tiger, you’re filthy rich and if you never pick up a golf club again you’ll stay filthy rich- that is of course as long as you don’t have multiple children by all the women you were messing around with. If that’s the case, man, you better be prepared to put a whole lot of babies through the best schools!!!

Back to the reasons I haven’t been blogging. My main excuse has nothing to do with pressure or lack of interest- it all revolves around a crazy decision I made about a year ago to go back to school for my doctorate.

Anyone I have met who is in a doctoral program (particularly a higher ed program) is constantly encouraging others to go back. “You can do it!” “You should do it!” “It’s worth it. If I can do it, so can you.” Right, so I listened. I, like the people in the Jonestown Massacre, sipped the Kool-Aid. What the heck was I thinking? TRUST ME blog friends…I will not be one of those people who encourages everyone to go back to school for a doctorate- at least not this month and maybe not even a few months from now. Perhaps it’s because I’m working full time, maybe it’s because I wasn’t ready for the economic theory laden higher ed finance class I took, or maybe it’s because I chose the wrong topic for my first literature review and research proposal, but school is hard! It kicked my butt. It hurt my feelings. It made me question my intelligence. It made me question my career. It was CRAZY! School was so crazy, it made me not realize that there were tons of great things to blog about for the past four months- the balloon boy and his crazy father; Taylor v. Kanye; the fact that Kanye is nuts; the fact that Jermaine Jackson has a son named Jermajesty; Whitney’s comeback; etc. etc. etc.

So, this first post in a few months is an attempt to recommit myself to blogging. Of course, I only have a few weeks before classes start again and I voluntarily torture myself to learn about the history of higher education and organizational theory in higher ed. Maybe this twitter business won’t be such a bad thing- between getting things done for work and running to class I might be able to quickly say, “Jermaine Jackson, why is your child’s name Jermajesty? People already think your family is crazy! #hotmess”