It has helped me!

All,

I agree wholeheartedly. I must admit, I have been reading a lot more than I should be writing. Keep your hopes up Toast, if only just a few of us use it, it will still be worth it. Gotta run, lab is burning.

-Taylor

p.s. I have a new post within a couple of days

Preliminary Conclusions

At the start of June 2008, I tested out an idea. I created a blog that a group of friends and I could post to in order to help us stay in touch after graduation from Colby College. My theory was that instead of writing many similar emails to different people, a task we would never be able to keep up with, we could all write posts to everyone. In this way, I hoped we would stay in touch. It was a forum for all to post to a couple times each month with updates on what was going on.

In the nearly ten months since its creation, that blog, “The Adventures of Colby 2008,” has been successful in some ways, and it has been disappointing in others. It is a success in that I am not the only person who checks it. Since I installed a hit counter in July, the site has been visited 635 times. That means that some people are definitely looking at it. It also means that some of these friends want to know what everyone else is up to. It has been disappointing in that only a few people continue to post on it. Posts are infrequent at this point, and I get the sense that many of the original members have forgotten about it. This means that ultimately, we have not stayed in touch very well. The blog has not served its purpose.

Although this experiment has not been entirely, successful, it has helped some of the members keep tabs on each other. I am happy that I was able to facilitate this. I will continue to post on this blog occasionally, and I hope that others will as well. I am launching my own website soon that will include a blog. It will afford me more creativity and control over the content. When it is ready, I will post a link on this blog. I will maintain both sites as long as they are serving their purpose in some way.

Toast

Tele Skis

Hey,
I just completed my new telemark setup last week. Now I can drop knees like a true hippie: "Free the heel, free the mind maaann."

I have two more weekends of coaching at big races, and then I think I'm free to run wild for a while. I'm open to suggestions if you have any...

Toast

My Life

I figured it was about time for an update.

I got an apt on wall street (actually in the same building as Mary
Huvane and Susan if you've been there). We live on the 23rd floor and
have a view of absolutely nothing. I'm living with Nate Lifton, Emily
Parker, and Christina Evriviades. It's been going pretty well so far,
we moved in at the beginning of February.

Christina and I actually signed the lease without having jobs...
slightly risky. But luckily I found a job about a week after signing;
Christina just found one and starts Monday, so it all worked out in
the end.

That's right, I actually found a job. It's at priceline.com in
Norwalk, CT. This unfortunately requires a 1:30 commute each way. What
do I do? I keep William Shatner's nether regions dry. Basically I
"handle" his ball sweat. I've been doing so well there is even talk of
promoting me to take care of his grundle as well.

My day to day life goes like this:

5:40am - Wake up
6:20am - Leave the apt
6:58am - Get the train to Darien
8:00am to 6:30pm - Caress Testicles
8pm - Aquarobics
9pm to 11pm - Get home, make myself something to eat, do whatever else
I need to do
11pm to 12am - Quietly cry myself to sleep.

You're all welcome to come visit whenever.

Take it easy.