Categories of Content You’ll Find On This Blog

Now that we’re a few posts in, I’ve decided to add categories to my past and upcoming posts. A large portion of the idea behind this website is to waste time EFFECTIVELY - if you’re here, you’re wanting to maximize the utility of your time spent off-task, whether by trolling for simple entertainment, learning something knew, or experiencing freelancer schadenfreude courtesy of my adventures.

Here are some of the categories you can expect to find as we go forward:

DEFINITION OF THE DAY

Like the very first “boondogglers” post, DOTD posts will take a word and dissect it - but not necessarily give you the exact definition that comes from the dictionary. Rather, these will be explorations of words I like, words I made up, or terms that can only exist in our world-on-fire, horse-in-a-Hospital 21st century hellscape.

WHOOPS YOU LEARNED SOMETHING

For many years, I entertained the idea of being an English teacher. Instead, I ended up graduating in three years with a Creative Writing degree and landed myself in marketing. These posts will be a space for letting loose my inner college professor - whether I’m teaching you about a newfangled marketing campaign, waxing philosophical about Shakespeare, or giving you a listicle of a hundred different ways to tie your shoes (I will probably never do that one), you can use these posts as an excuse to tell your boss you’re doing “research.”

DON’T GET ME STARTED

Inspired by a drinking game I read about on the Interwebs™️, these posts will be wildly opinionated rants on subjects I’m passionate about. Sometimes positive, often negative, but they will always be backed up by some kind of research, if I’m defending a position that needs it. If I’m ranting about it, I took the time to know what I’m ranting about. My promise to you.

REVIEWS NOBODY ASKED FOR

I work in marketing, PR, and influencer relations. I spend a lot of time asking people for reviews of different products. Given that I’m not Insta famous and my blog has a UVPM of, well, my boyfriend, odds are I’m not going to be posting paid product reviews in the meantime. So you can trust that these reviews exist because I cared enough about the product, movie, album, or whatever to give it a real review. Expect pros, cons, and arbitrary star ratings (I’m thinking 10 stegosaurus spinal spikes out of 12). You get the idea.

MISCELLANEOUS

Would it be a blog without a miscellaneous section? Reserve these for the odd recipe (I consider myself an apartment chef), life update, dog photo, meme dump, and inspirational quote. Likely random one-offs will eventually become categories of their own, if I like writing them enough to stick with it.

Take these with a grain of salt - I’ve got a grand total of four posts on this site now, so it will be a while before you’ll have a true backlog to devote hours to on a rainy Friday afternoon. But in the meantime, enjoy this glimpse into how the brainstorming side of my brain works. And laugh with me as I struggle to assign categories from my phone.