The Start

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So I guess this is the start of my little space on the web. I mean, I have had plenty of little spaces on the web, but they never really felt like "me" and just felt like I was trying to mold other platforms into what I really wanted.

So I'm making it myself now.

And that little space is just a small URL with zero consideration for what other people like—no hearts, views, or external pressures. If you made it here, that's your fault lol.

It's weird because I have a BS in software engineering, but I kind of hate it. I got into it because I loved it, but I think what I loved was being creative online—not meetings, being talked down to, and writing 100 lines of documentation for one line of code.

I absolutely do not regret my BS and enjoyed getting it, but it really is now just a stepping stone to my master's in a completely different field. And I am okay with that, I think. Tech was not what they promised by the time I got into it. I was lied to.

Which is why this little website will be a mess. And I want it to be.

I don't want to worry about my code, readability, or anything. I want to just throw shit into the IDE and call it a day. I want to be okay with ugly and silly, forever adding more weird shit, weirdly broken and overlapping code, and just making nonsense.

Journals might be a place to rant or share awesome life updates with the random stranger who might poke through my site.

Anyways, look at my pretty puppy named Hemlock.

Hemlock is kind of the love of my life and why I get up in the morning. He is only about a year old, but I don't even know what life was like before him.