One of my ideas for a future career is to become a psychotherapist. It’s a field that I’ve always found fascinating. I can think of only one major drawback: suppose one of your patients has just seen that really amazing movie that everyone’s talking about, and the movie just happens to have unleashed a torrent of emotions and revelations in that person, and they feel a need to emote effusively about it? And you haven’t seen the movie? And it’s one of those movies with a killer plot twist, like “Citizen Kane” or “The Usual Suspects” or “The Crying Game”? What do you do? I don’t know.

But it’s something to think about.

The Declaration is a great weekly student publication at the University of Virginia. It’s one of those smart/hip/deep/funny newspapers, often with some great writing.

Well, I’m entering the world of blogging. I first read about blogging in the New York Times’ Circuits section a few weeks ago, and it was intriguing. An easy way to publish mental diarrhea! Several weeks later, I was reading an article in the New Yorker by Rebecca Mead. The “About the Authors” section contained a link to her website, which I decided to check out. Her site is a compendium of various articles she’s written for the magazine, and the article at the top of the site was about blogging. I decided I’d finally look into this blogging phenomenon, and — as the chef says before he serves you a plate of frog’s legs — voila. Here it is.

This blog is actually just one part of my rather low-tech website [link removed], which has more information about me. Have fun.