odd little bean

for about 3 or 4 years now, i’ve been a blogger (whatever that means).

a few months ago i got hired by a company that has been known to fire employees based on personal blog content. “zoinks!,” i thought, “time to 86 my blog and go undercover for a while.”

or was it?

a few days before i left my old job, a guy i worked with turned to me and said, “you’re an odd little bean, aren’t you?” my immediate reaction was to exclaim, “oh my god! what a great URL!” the woman standing next to him (who just MIGHT be the most fervent dwight yoakam fan in the cosmos, but you didn’t hear it from me) laughed and then said, “especially since you’re moving to boston…beantown.” i quickly added, “not to mention the fact that i’m a vegetarian and eat beans like they’re going out of style.”

it was at that point i crossed my fingers, hoped to die, stuck a needle in my eye, and plugged www.oddlittlebean.com into godaddy’s domain search. available? seriously? it was obviously meant to be.

and so the new journey begins. it took me 2+ months to get this blog up & running, but now i’m ready to roar, and by “roar,” i mean document my long awaited return to new england. for eight years i’ve talked non-stop about getting back to my roots, but will it be everything i ever imagined? will i start talking like click and clack? will i miss all of my nerdlet friends from 2.0 land? will the boston brahmins and their old money leave me yearning for the land of meaningless silicon valley start-up money? do people in boston really throw a higher than usual rate of tea parties? will paying over $1700/month for rent drive me to start flipping tricks in the closest public alley? all this and more, folks. you ain’t read n-n-n-n-nothin’ yet…