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Welcome to sashyenka.co
Before I write about New York and my thoughts and observations from going there, I would like to note that there are some big changes going on here...again.
I decided that it was time for me to consolidate my online presence with coherent "branding", or in other words, that I use the same moniker/username everywhere on the internet and ought to solidify that usage. 'sashyenka' has been part of my online presence since at least 2007 and is short and simple enough to where even people who are not good with foreign-sounding words like my mother can remember it and say it aloud with no real issues. To add to this, I have ideas for taking my writing in new directions in the coming months, and I have a lot of YouTube ideas formulating, so I wanted a cohesive space from which to launch all of my creative endeavors. Call it a personal site without the resume if you'd like. Stylistically I wanted to work with something neutral and minimal. My personality does not play well with clutter, and I know that there are a lot of things to compile here, so I made the best of it. Blogger is still the platform I'm using and will continue to be unless something truly crazy happens and I have a need to create a more formally hosted site.
As a result of this, some of my older posts may get hidden from public view. This is a part of a general cleanup I am undertaking of my online presence, clearing out needless old things and pruning what I have active. Since I'm done with undergrad and moving into a phase of being more held to my own decisions, this process is imperative. I would like to take things like writing a little more seriously, so some of my content will simply not be suitable for public viewing. This is not to say, however, that I will be enforcing a form of more rigorous self-censorship; fundamentally I keep this blog as an outlet for my creative expression and that will continue to be the case. This same process can be seen across parts of my other social media outlets, and I think this is all for the better.
I hope you enjoy the new look and will continue to enjoy what I produce into the future. I would have been hard-pressed to expect three and a half years ago that I would continue along in such a manner.
I decided that it was time for me to consolidate my online presence with coherent "branding", or in other words, that I use the same moniker/username everywhere on the internet and ought to solidify that usage. 'sashyenka' has been part of my online presence since at least 2007 and is short and simple enough to where even people who are not good with foreign-sounding words like my mother can remember it and say it aloud with no real issues. To add to this, I have ideas for taking my writing in new directions in the coming months, and I have a lot of YouTube ideas formulating, so I wanted a cohesive space from which to launch all of my creative endeavors. Call it a personal site without the resume if you'd like. Stylistically I wanted to work with something neutral and minimal. My personality does not play well with clutter, and I know that there are a lot of things to compile here, so I made the best of it. Blogger is still the platform I'm using and will continue to be unless something truly crazy happens and I have a need to create a more formally hosted site.
As a result of this, some of my older posts may get hidden from public view. This is a part of a general cleanup I am undertaking of my online presence, clearing out needless old things and pruning what I have active. Since I'm done with undergrad and moving into a phase of being more held to my own decisions, this process is imperative. I would like to take things like writing a little more seriously, so some of my content will simply not be suitable for public viewing. This is not to say, however, that I will be enforcing a form of more rigorous self-censorship; fundamentally I keep this blog as an outlet for my creative expression and that will continue to be the case. This same process can be seen across parts of my other social media outlets, and I think this is all for the better.
I hope you enjoy the new look and will continue to enjoy what I produce into the future. I would have been hard-pressed to expect three and a half years ago that I would continue along in such a manner.