About Bad Glacier (the site)
I claim to have started this site as a way to keep in contact with my friends and practice my writing skills as I prepared for and entered law school. That turned out to be a lie, of course. I only ended up telling two friends about the site and I don’t write posts that require any special effort to put together. Without those reasons, I’m not sure there’s a justification for Bad Glacier’s existence. Why people would want to hear my thoughts, I don’t know, but that hasn’t stopped me from sending them out over the internets anyways. Basically, this site has become nothing more than a way to keep myself amused (it doesn’t take much) and a way to discover more interesting blogs than I can possibly keep track of–though I’m making a valiant effort.
The name Bad Glacier comes from the first chapter of Kurt Vonnegut’s book, Slaughterhouse-Five, where Harrison Starr, after hearing that Vonnegut is writing an anti-war book, suggests he write an anti-glacier book instead. This seemed appropriate for my site, which I anticipate becoming an extended rant on law school and other things not within my power to change. I am not the Bad Glacier here. I expect to be the one shaking my fist at the glacier as it slowly flows past, crushing my soul, carving out lakes and valleys, starting a new ice age, and generally letting the metaphor go too far.
I plan on maintaining this blog through law school and promptly neglecting it as soon as I get a job and can afford a real hobby. Until then, thanks for reading.
July 13th, 2005 at 4:43 pm
Well, thanks for letting all of us other losers know that you’re just waiting for a real hobby. :)
July 13th, 2005 at 5:09 pm
Hey, no problem. I didn’t want to create any false hopes, y’know.
Seriously, though, I can’t see this blog lasting much past law school. From what I’ve seen, most employers frown on employee-bloggers, pretty much regardless of what they write about.
And really, do you expect Bad Glacier to last that long anyways? I’ll be amazed if I can keep it going through 1L year.
July 14th, 2005 at 9:51 am
how would your emplyer know if you had a blog or not?
July 14th, 2005 at 10:05 am
Well, I don’t make much effort to hide my identity and I blog under my real first name. It wouldn’t be impossible for someone to figure out who I am. I think I’d just prefer to avoid the risk.