2 - Sojourner Spoof

The story of my life is that I've moved around a lot. Can't stay still. Always moving. Finishing one chapter of life and physically moving to another...often involving hundreds or thousands of miles distance between the two. Funny thing is, I'm not seeking out the move. Life forces it upon me and I oblige. I've said it every single time I've moved (and I am certainly not the first to iterate these words): moving sucks. Nevertheless, it is necessary.

In today's world, where information moves at the speed of light, economies rise and fall in minutes, and the demand for individual productivity requires immediate mobility, I am one of the many whose fate is tied to a future destination. It's never just tied to the one in which I currently reside.

That being said, I currently live in South Portland, Maine, and I moved here from Hilo, Hawai'i. Prior to that it was various places in Northern California, Southern California, Nevada, Germany, and Iran.

I came to Maine for graduate school, and I am currently a graduate student. Here's my profile on the school's graduate program website: http://www.gsbs.umaine.edu/people/profile/beau_rostama .  It's extremely time-consuming work. It goes without saying, therefore, that my entries into this blog will be sparse and haphazard. It is for my own personal interest, then, that I write this. So if anyone else reading this has any questions for me, please email me ( brostama [ a t ] gmail [ d o t ] com ) and I will write you back or respond in the blog about it.

So...ummm....here's a picture of some of the cells I had growing in the lab, fluorescently stained. :)

1 - The first entry.

Hi Folks!

So I know there are millions of weblogs out there, and that most people don't care what others have to talk about, simply because EVERYONE is talking at the same time and it's mostly very boring. What keeps the blog-o-sphere going is, most of those doing the talking do not care. Neither do I. So if you're reading this, I thank you for caring about ME enough to read this, because you could easily be reading the writings of someone far, far more interesting.

This blog is not made for any specific reason. I just wanted to have somewhere to write stuff that was not homework, work-related, or having to do with science, although I will inevitably touch on those subjects because they make up a huge part of my life. That being said, this blog won't have a worldly theme. I am the theme. Since I consider myself a multi-faceted person, the stuff poured out on these pages will be variable and not terribly exciting. Probably just day to day stuff, and the occasional thing I get passionate about, like politics, food, philosophical ideas or something else like that.  However, since it is public, I will be using discretion so as not to offend anyone with whom I am associated. This is not a diary, after all.

I tried having blogs before, but I ended up writing some strange things in those that I did not want friends and family to see, so I anonymized them and do not link them to myself anymore. They still exists on the internet, I do still occasionally write in them, and for those who may have originally had the addresses, they can go read those for themselves. I'm trying to keep this blog civil and grounded.

So that's that for this entry. Cheers for now.

Here's a recent picture of me, Bahman "Beau" Rostama