if this post were on a football team, it’d be the rookie…
As I’m sure is painfully obvious by the look of my page, this is my first blog. Hopefully it won’t take me long to pick up a few skills that will go toward making my page a bit more aesthetically palatable, but until then it’ll just have to look sloppy.
Just to give a little background information, I’m a 28-year old retired veteran of the Army. As my pseudonym implies, I was wounded overseas, and this fact naturally colors many of my perceptions of the world. I have a Bachelor’s Degree in English from the University of Mississippi, and I’m in the process now of getting myself into graduate school to study for a Ph.D. in Philosophy, after which I’ll have to make a choice as to what field I want to study for my second graduate degree. This is all in preparation for a career in academia, hopefully teaching at the university level. Right now I can’t decide between a degree in sociology, anthropology, or comparative religion, though right now I’m leaning more toward anthropology. But one good thing about the fact that it takes quite a while to get a Ph.D. is that I don’t have to make up my mind about the second anytime soon.
This blog will likely be a little sporadic, as I’m not the best at keeping to a daily schedule of writing, and will deal with anything that happens to be a thorn in my mind at the time. So, welcome to my blog, and I hope something you read will cause you to think about something you hadn’t before you stumbled across my ramblings.
Congratulations, and good luck! I always enjoy reading what you have to say at pharyngula — the “OM” is well-earned — and look forward to reading what you have to say here.
Thanks again, bgbaysjr
Comment by bgbaysjr — June 11, 2008 @ 10:49 pm
Hey, a blog. I’m an admirer of your comments over at Pharyngula. Query: Why do you feel it necessary to earn two doctorates? One’s plenty for most of us academic-types.
Comment by Sven DiMIlo — June 14, 2008 @ 7:33 pm
Ahhh… I was wondering when you’d start your own place. I guess that means I’m not the rookie any more. I look forward to more.
Comment by MikeG — June 15, 2008 @ 4:28 pm
Hey BrokenSoldier - I’ve always appreciated your comments on Pharyngula, so congratulations on getting your own blog up. One of these days I’m going to get my lazy self into gear and do likewise.
Hope it all goes well.
Wowbagger
Comment by Wowbagger — July 2, 2008 @ 8:24 pm
Hey, brokenSoldier, it’s good to see that you now have your own blog. I first “met” you on Pharyngula and admit that my first reaction was “great, here’s someone who can write coherent English.” I soon realised there’s a lot more to you than that and I’ll certainly be back here for more. See you around!
Comment by Maureen Brian — July 3, 2008 @ 5:51 am
Howdy brokensoldier - I’m a very-infrequent commenter at Pharyngula, but I always remembered your comments as being interesting. And now I see you have a blog. This one’s going on my daily rounds for sure.
Comment by Vic — July 3, 2008 @ 7:43 am
Hi,I´m yoeruek. I´m a fan of yours since I read your comments at Pharyngula. Best wishes to you and your blog.
Comment by yoeruek — July 14, 2008 @ 7:08 pm
Congratulations brokenSoldier!
I have been waiting for this blog since I first read your stuff on Pharyngula. I truly appreciate your prose, logic, and the structure of your thoughts, and look forward to more thought-provoking posts.
Comment by deadlyNightshade — July 16, 2008 @ 3:56 pm
Comment by Sven DiMIlo — June 14, 2008 @ 7:33 pm
It’s not that I feel like I need to get two doctorates, but rather it’s that I want to get a degree in more than one field so that I can teach in more than one discipline.
Comment by brokensoldier — July 20, 2008 @ 12:57 am
Thanks to all those who have welcomed me to the world of blogging. I’m usually terrible about keeping up with this sort of thing - you could fill a damn closet with all the journals that I have started and let die - but since I know now that there are people like you guys out there that enjoy what I have to say, I’ll be sure to keep up with it. Though I can’t promise pposts on a daily basis, I’ll make a promise to post at least a few times a week! (And if I don’t, feel free to send me an e-mail informing me how much of a lazy slacker I’m being! Nothing like a little constructive prodding as a catalyst for consistency…)
Comment by brokensoldier — July 20, 2008 @ 1:04 am