You might have already checked the About page, so this isn’t going to be an intro to me so much as it is the obligatory “why I made my own personal website” post.
I certainly didn’t expect to make my own website; the last time I made a WordPress blog was for English in the 10th grade (shoutout to Ms. Holmgren!) that I eventually transitioned into a book review blog that literally no one asked for and that I no longer remember the login for. Good times. Who knows, maybe I’ll go back to writing book reviews now that I have a proper stack of books to read again.
Making a personal website feels a little cheesy and maybe a little bit try-hard to me, since I’m not a photographer or visual artist, but I created this website as a portfolio of past work. I enjoy taking on a variety different jobs and responsibilities, and I put in a lot of time, energy, effort, and love into pretty much everything I do. So this blog also serves a place to showcase the work I’m especially proud of—whether that’s fun graphics I’ve made over the years, details of events I’ve put on (in one interview, I asked whether or not planning my wedding in about 3 months counted as good event planning, and the interviewer said yes, so add that to the list I guess?), but mostly pieces I’ve written. I’m going to add pieces that I’ve written for uni, original drafts of articles for local newspapers like Beacon Media News/Hey Socal before I had to cut them (I just wrote one now that I am realizing no one will want to read because I made it way too dense and I don’t really have to write in “academic tone” anymore but I kinda just wanted to), and maybe even some personal pieces, like poetry from high school. Maybe I’ll upload some videos. But that probably won’t be here in the blog section.
And yeah, I really like to run on and on. But that’s why this is a blog, and just an intro at that.
To be perfectly frank, I’m not expecting anyone to read any of this. This blog is probably going to just end up being a lil corner of the Internet where I can put some stuff I’m proud of and quietly smile about. The pages that are basically more involved résumé pages are the only pages I’m expecting anyone will look at, so I appreciate you if you made it all the way here!
If I do make any posts that are just personal, the topics I probably am most likely to write about (not talk about) would be: books, culture/identity, education, entertainment (i.e. film/theatre/television), food, mental health, and travel. These are not the only things I care about, just the ones I’d write about. Some posts might be more formal and structured, and some might end up just being rants in written form. There’s a whole spectrum of possibilities.
Anyway, thanks for joining this anxious lil nerd. I hope that somewhere in here you’ll find something that’ll make you smile. 🙂
All the best,
Brianna
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