Nine

Nine years.

Nine years ago my dismay at the way certain Ecstasy and pot enthusiasts conducted misinformation campaigns online, and dismay over certain realities of the scientific career arc reached a threshold.

I had been reading science blogs and, particularly, several ScienceBlogs, so the outlet immediately presented itself.

Much spleen has been vented and my sanity kept near the critical line.

I’ve read comments from people that I would have never known, still don’t beyond the confines of this blog in many cases* and learned a great deal as a consequence.

I’ve gotten to know people in my field that I would have known only at a handshake level. I’ve gotten to know some fantastic people in other fields or walks of life that I would have never run across.

In short, it has been a lot of fun writing this blog over the past nine years.

I can quit anytime I want.
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*as recently as the last few months I’ve had a long term blog commenter out self to me and I was shocked to discover it wasn’t a woman like I thought.