First Steps

Late to the party by Bryan Trude

While sitting in a classroom during my undergrad days at Central Oklahoma, there was a common theme dictated to me, mostly in Dr. Terry Clark's classes which were often way too early in my day for me to stay awake in for the entire time. I still did really well in his courses, however.

That theme, however, was that one of the most important presences a journalist can have in the modern era is a web presence.

Now, a few years and about 60 miles north of there, I was sitting in one of my graduate courses and I thought to myself "You know, I should really get on that."

Look, I can meet any deadline set out for me, and produce content dripping with skill, quality, and refinement. I just tend to procrastinate if it involves me spending money, okay?

As I scrape my professional life together because my archive decided to go belly up back in April, more and more will become available here. Especially as I grow more and more experienced with Squarespace's capabilities and interface. It's not a bad deal, but the Squarespace editor doesn't like to play well with Chrome, so I'm doing all of my work in Edge. Lame.

Looking up at the top of this bar, you probably noticed a lack of...well, content. Well keep your undies on, Sally Sassypants. That will soon be populated with all sorts of content. Snippets from my professional portfolio, resume, curriculum vitae, and even information on my research as I pursue a Master's degree at Oklahoma State University and craft my thesis. As for this page here, I'll write whatever I want, whenever I want, simply because I feel like it, and I mean whatever I want. Be it profound, funny to others, funny to me, or just pictures of my cat back home in Seattle.

Kind of like this.

Kind of like this.

Because I can.