Skills for the New Millennium Tour

Howdy All Yall Out There In Permibus II Land:

My New Year’s resolution is to be a better Skills Tour blogger. After much contemplation I decided my reluctance to blog is a combination of my inherit Cancer nature, previous bad experiences with e-mail communication, and my own personal struggles with writing. I am working to get beyond the idea of blogging as a writing process that requires an introduction, thesis statement, supporting paragraphs, and a conclusion. Instead, I am going to try and use the blog as a writing exercise, more stream-of-consciousness then organized form.

Doing a project like the Skills Tour is challenging to us in different ways. One of my challenges is becoming comfortable with new forms of communication, in this case blogging. I struggle with what to write about, who my audience is, and what I can say that is different from the what we are doing with the tour blogs written be Megan, the outreach coordinator. So I am going to start off by blogging about my internal process and challenges around the tour. I realized that if we want to make do a project that is replicable, which we do, then I need to share more about its every day struggles, like blogging, and how we overcome them. So a month after I resolved to blog here’s my first blog - wish me luck.