rabid renaissance

rabid : adjective : going to extreme lengths in expressing or pursuing a feeling, interest, or opinion

renaissance : noun : a movement or period of vigorous artistic and intellectual activity

Welcome to my work in progress. My name is Kate. I’m 32, recently hitched to my wonderful partner, Shay, and a few months ago we relocated to Silicon Valley to work for Yahoo!.

[disclaimer] While I may refer to my job and my employer from time to time, this is a personal bog and I am in no way a spokesperson for Yahoo! when blogging here.[/disclaimer]

My educational background (BS) is in Zoology and the Biological Sciences. For a portion of my young adulthood I considered attending Vet school, but changed my mind when I started falling in love with the internet in 1995.

I’ve carved out this little corner of the ether as a place to incubate and nurture my creativity, curiosity, nostalgia, wonderment, vitriol, and general world view. I fell into the lap of this particular domain name a few months ago, while trying to come up with a screen name that wasn’t already taken. Once it popped into my head, I liked it so much I snatched up the domain and set it aside for the day when I would actually start blogging.

I’m hoping that it will also function as a self-fulfilling prophecy, as this is the sort of endeavor for which I have a deep and complex history of procrastination. The renaissance of thoughts and ideas spinning around in my head it indeed consistently and constantly rabid, but I have been either too lazy or too timid to let much of it out of my head.

Time is short this morning and I’m still figuring out how to exactly use WordPress, so I’m going to link to some blogs/sites of my friends and family while I figure out how to build a sticky list of such things.

My uncle, Carl, is quite the prolific illustrator. His blog inspires me to not only make the time in my daily grind to indulge in my creative passions, but to also share them.

My friend and former co-worker, Alex, can usually be found in a fit of bohemian wanderlust somewhere between Atlanta, the Washington D.C. area, and New York City. She’s a talented painter and photographer, and one of those rare friends that one somehow manages to keep (and be kept by) through life while others just fade away.

Another friend and former co-worker, Liza, is the sort of uber-prolific and widely-read blogger that makes you wonder what secret reserves of energy and focus she is somehow able to tap into.

So that’s my first post. More soon…