A Note Before Beginning

Let’s begin with an understanding:

This is a living document. It is a story told by an idiot. The posts are made as often as I can manage them and are given a brief proofread for line edits, content, and prose. However, it is fully possible that as I make more posts I will go back and edit previous ones, either for clarity of the narrative or egregious grammar mistakes. I am not a perfect writer.

The content of this website diagrams my experience as a geriatric (31 years old) graduate teaching assistant in the English Department at a mid-sized Midwestern University. This is not a memoir. That being said it is also a critique of myself. To the best of my ability, I have recreated the truth in these pages. However, the truth is malleable. At times I’ve taken creative liberties and being a fiction writer, I’ve embellished the details of individual characters or events that have taken place. This creative injection into the memory of my own experience is done to further bring the reality of these details closer to the truth as I felt it emotionally. Where my memory has failed me, I have filled the gaps.

I’ve created this project with the intent of providing myself a sort of decompression after going through severe emotional trauma. Any other impact my writing here might have is merely collateral damage.

Welcome to my world. I hope that your time here is half as interesting as my therapist seems to think it should be.