It’s time for a change. I’ve had essentially the same Blogger website and personalized template since I started blogging almost nine years ago, and my tastes are no longer quite so, um, pastel. I do wish I could have just changed my template and stayed with Blogger, and thus kept the address that everyone already knows, but there just wasn’t a design that spoke to me… and furthermore, I am no longer in possession of the scads of free time and endless persistence that are most definitely required in order to successfully tweak one’s own personal template into a format that is simultaneously clean, organized, practical, appealing, and maintenance-free. In other words, while there will always be a soft spot in my heart for Blogger and its ease of use, I do think WordPress has officially won me over.
Having said that, I’m going to try to be better about posting on a more regular and frequent basis. School has successfully (and rightfully) put the fear of god into us about HIPPA violations and patient privacy, so there will obviously be huge chunks of my life that I won’t be able to post… but you know, I am more than just a PA education, dammit, and I truly miss blogging. The silver lining is that my emails to friends have definitely gotten longer (someone said the other day, ‘oh, good, an email from Jess; let me go get another cup of coffee!’), but rather than put the onus on any one person in terms of replies, why not just put it all out there into the world?
Anyway, so I’m in the process of trying to migrate nine years’ worth of old content from Blogger to WP. This is not proving to be as easy or seamless as perhaps it should be (story of my life), and this page is looking quite interesting at the moment (posts from 2004 are showing up next to posts from 2011); however, I’m not quite ready to give up yet. We’ll see what happens. Either way, this is my new home, so stay tuned.
P.S. My real-life stethoscope is actually not purple. But ‘burgundy’ just didn’t have quite the same ring to it… :-)
