QuaxiDanto

QuaxiDanto: If you speak K'ekchi, you know what it means, but don’t understand. K'ekchi is a Mayan dialect spoken in, among other places, Belize. I made several extended trips into the high bush in southern Belize at the end of the last century with a bunch of K'ekchis who gave me the nickname Danto, which means Tapir. That name had been taken so I added the modifier Quaxi, which means crazy. What does CrazyTapir mean as far as the title of my blog? Whatever!

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I am an enigmatic anachronism, facing the world jaded and uncomfortably impressed. My chosen profession is archaeology, which turns out to be way more tedious than cool. I race yachts, hang with the bohemian artist crowd, and vacation at ancient Maya cities. Its no wonder I usually feel out of place, and am oh-so-pleased to be different (even if it is not in a good way). Why TOC?: I was participating through emails in a call-in radio show that didn’t accept phone calls (it’s college radio, which covers a multitude of sins). The host had a friend named Chuck who also wrote into the show so they started referring to me as “the other Chuck.” I started signing my emails TOC (The Other Chuck). A little later I started posting to a blog that was running live during the next program in the lineup and then a couple of other places and have just kind of stuck with it as a screen name. Again, whatever dude.

Thursday, July 28, 2005

Bloggidy blog blog blog.

I read a long post on what to blog about that was linked to on Brewed Fresh Daily, a frequent stop on my morning surf. I link to blogs about stuff I think might be interesting and check out a couple blogs that friends and acquaintances are writing. Eventually, I will motivate and add some of their links, but not today. I started this blog to see how it went because I was enthusiastically supporting the idea of putting a web site together for the Uxbenka excavation project in Belize and including blogs for the principals and various ephemera involved in the project (i.e., me). I am kind of self-conscience and was not sure how I would be with this, so I thought I would give it a shot.

I am trying to see what others use their blogs for. I don’t think I have any great purpose and don’t want to feel like I am slacking when I don’t open my blog to make sure that nobody has commented. I don’t think I really want to be bearing my soul “in public” even though I can’t imagine anybody will ever read this. Do I need to explain to myself that it was fun to be all hammered and flirty the other night at The Drink and that I am suffering for it the morning after? I can’t think the mental masturbation of examining my emotion connections to the people I met and will probably never see again will be of any value to me, let alone the sorry traveler that somehow might land here. I have been to, and talked about, some bands and Maria’s gallery opening, but my comments were sadly lacking in substance, if they can even be considered reviews. There are always bad haikus. I do like to write those. I'm no closer to knowing what to do with this thing, but at least I have written something and that, I think, is the only way I will ever find my answer.

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