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I knew I should’ve made that left turn at Albuquerque

Subtitled, This Week’s Other Guest Blogger

Hello, everyone! I’m Linnaeus and I’ve been given the honor of being the tag-team partner and other guest blogger this week. I’ve no particular qualifications other than having been around Feministe for a good long while and being asked by Jill. My story is pretty simple: I grew up in the Midwest, then moved to the Pacific Northwest about ten years ago. Currently, I’m a graduate student studying history and living in Seattle, to which I frequently refer as the Emerald City, but which is more accurately called the Gray City this time of year.

I’m excited and a little nervous. I’ve never blogged before, and the standard set by both bloggers and commenters here at Feministe is a very high one. My grandfather, however, once said to me that “if you go through life doing just what you can, you’ll find you won’t get much of anywhere.” So, with that advice in mind, I’m giving it a go.


12 thoughts on I knew I should’ve made that left turn at Albuquerque

  1. I study the history of science, specifically the life sciences. My dissertation is about natural history and imperialism in the Pacific Northwest.

  2. Thanks, Ginger. I’m working on it. Today is grading due day for the fall quarter, and I’m wrapping that up.

  3. Hi Linneaus!
    I was once a history grad student interested in similar issues. I was looking at the counter-enlightenment and anti-imperial activity, but in Europe and the British colonies. Though I’m no longer at it, all things empire still get me excited in that history nerd kinda way!
    NormaJ

  4. Hey Linnaeus,

    I am also a beginning History grad student studying Modern Chinese history with an interest in how the Japanese Colonial Legacy has impacted China in the late 19th and the first half of the 20th Century.

  5. Seattleite here as well. It may be gray, but I still love it!

    As do I. I’ve often commented that I’d live in a cardboard box before I’d leave. Thing is, that may be all I can afford in this town.

    Thanks for all of the welcoming comments! It’s good to see some historians representing, too.

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