Hello again! It's been a while! Quick blog update for anyone interested:
Hi everyone! I'm thinksandthings, and although I haven't been active on this blog at all in well over a year, I'd really like to try to get back to it and thought I would write a quick blurb about that for you all!
I just graduated with a master's in linguistics this spring, which for the past few years has been taking up a lot of my mental space, so I've had to put this project aside for a bit to try to finish school strong.
It's been honestly very sad to step away from this, I had really enjoyed reading the comments on my posts and seeing the wonderful contributions from people with specialties in subjects from history to literature to the sciences and everywhere in between! I've loved being able to share my little pieces of expertise and learning in turn from all of yours. I write about words because I love them, and one of my favorite aspects of language is how inextricably it is tied to everything else that makes us human: our pasts, cultures, relationships, our mythologies and our thoughts.
If you have ever sent me any messages or questions, please know I will try my best to get to them, even if I'm very late in doing so. I am very shy but seeing people who want to interact and are showing an interest in my nerdy hobbies truly warms my heart.
I will be going back to school for further studies this fall, but I am hopeful that if I can get back into the swing of writing here this summer, I will be able to maintain that as we go into next year. Thank you for being excited about words with me, and I look forward to learning more about etymology with all of you! <3