A recent bout of (thankfully planned) unemployment has me re-assessing all kinds of things, and I realized one of the activities I've missed most in the last few years has been blogging. I was a long-time Open Diary user, and recently discovered (after years of non-use, no less) that the site is gone.
Thankfully, I was blogging in parallel at LiveJournal for reasons I can no longer remember, so years 2005-2012 were not lost entirely, but... I MISS THAT PLACE. From 2002-2012, OD was my comfort, my friend circle, my sandbox where I was figuring out my life in my early and mid-20's in the real world through writing. It was titled Revisionist History, a nod to the imperfection of memory and the knowledge that I was trying to craft a subtly better version of events in my written record. In a prescient move, I started downloading and storing the entries in Word documents starting in grad school, even making paper copies of them, which speaks both to my desire to have a physical record of my time in the world as well as my suspicion about the longevity of computer storage formats.
I'm calling my blog here "Endives & Archives" in honor of a delightfully dingy waitress we had at a nearby Chili's a few years back. Upon being presented with a very old giftcard my partner had in his wallet, she looked at it and said, "Oh, wow, this is really old! It's definitely one for the ar-chives!"
Yes, "the ar-chives", pronounced like it was some kind of obscure vegetable, instead of a place where one stores original documents for posterity. And so, Endives & Archives was born.
Thank you, Dingy Chili's Waitress, you are a Real American Hero.
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