Way back when, maybe post one or it might have been post two, I relayed the advice that I should have been touching this blog every day or so, like an actual daily log or a journal. Obviously that hasn’t panned out, part of me is somewhat upset about that, part of me is really working to minimize my web presence. So why a random post? It’s a new year, so why not?
We started climbing, well, bouldering, which IS climbing, but that’s a digression. Getting into yet another gym, and finally finding a coffee house has stirred up the “cultural geographer” in me again. This will be nice, I may get to roll everything back into one big happy academic career. For the moment though, think of it as the spatial distribution and deviation of a unified social subgroup across an arbitrary geographic extent… I like trying to find big academic ways to describe the question “why is the climbing community in Cincinnati SO different from the climbing community in Akron? How do other socio -cultural influences impact the differences seen in the communities?”
But the side step really comes back to the fact that I’m finally pulling down again, and for as minimal of a time as I’ve been back I feel really good. I’m not in the greatest of shape, and it’s leading to a few strains in the fingertips, but that could also be another of those differences between communities; we are climbing on much steeper stuff here than we did back home in Akron.
and the adventure continues…
oh. Happy New Year.
