NY ♥ NY

Me in the Center for American Progress internship video. I say the first 3 words: "Change does happen." Click to watch all of it.

I abandoned my blog this summer. Perhaps I could blame it on my apartment’s lack of wireless connectivity, or on my 9-6 working schedule (though my wireless hadn’t stopped me from posting twice in May and my internship provided more than enough content to blog about). It could be that summer vacation seeped into my brain as my academic thoughts seeped out (though I managed to blog throughout last summer, with two jobs). Then again, I could always just revert to the fact that I am more of a Twitter person (not to mention the only people who find this blog are ones who Google “Hunter Parrish” + any combination of “gay? girlfriend? naked? Silas?”).

My seeming aversion to blogging presents a dilemma insomuch as I feel like I should have put more effort into ninanyc.com these past two months; I say “should” because substantive blogging is a requirement for any hopeful up-and-comer in the digital media marketing/online advocacy sphere. And yet, is it so wrong that I don’t enjoy hearing or discussing the same topic (“social media,” or anything else, for that matter) interminably? While the Internet and social networks account for my major as well as my work/internship life, one can only handle so much 2.0 talk. Blasphemy or honesty? You decide.

That said, I’ll continue to blog, though on an infrequent basis. This blog never had an explicit purpose or goal and so it has drifted along, becoming more of an intermittent chronicle of my life. I’m content to keep it that way, since my life consists largely of online social networks anyway. As a happy and busy Sam explained, “I’m having a hard time adapting (or even caring about adapting) this blog to a new purpose. It was basically a time-filler, and the time is currently filled.” As I just explained…my blog has no new purpose to adapt to, but my time is currently filled with exciting opportunities, a pending graduation, loved ones, and a new apartment in the West Village.

I will probably post again soon to recount my experience interning in DC this summer and to review my new place with soon-to-be roommate (Gawker-dubbed “NYU’s new-media wunderkind”) Cody Brown. Of course, don’t hold your breath.