About

Hi. Welcome to my blog (or rather, the About page of my blog!)

As I write this, I’m running into a lot of the usual problems that people run into when writing an about page for their blog. How much information should you share? What do readers need to know? What do the readers not need to know? What will give the reader a better idea of where you’re coming from, and your take on the world? I’d be being naive if I felt that who I am doesn’t matter. Who I am and what my interests are influences everything I write here.

My name’s Josh. I live in Southern Ohio (I can walk a few blocks and look across the Ohio River at Kentucky). I’m currently a full-time college student majoring in history. (I’m 22, by the way.) I don’t really know what I want to do after graduating. I’ve considered teaching, but if I teach, I’d really like to teach at the college level, and that’s going to take a whole lot more schooling. Particularly areas of history that interest me a lot are the Viking Age, as well as World War 2. While those are some of my favorite areas of study, I find all history extremely interesting.

Languages are another thing I’m quite fond of. I’ve dabbled in a variety of languages over the past few years: Latin, Old English (Ango-Saxon), Old Norse, German, and a few others here and there. I’ve progressed quite a lot in my German; I’m not even close to fluent, but I feel I have a solid foundation in it, and I’m still learning. Speaking of, if you read this Marcel: thanks for all of your help.

I’m a long-time gamer, specifically PC games. Some favorites of mine: Starcraft, Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2, Day of Defeat (and the Source version), Civilization IV, and World of Warcraft (oh, how I miss thee, WoW…) I’ve played far, far more than that, but those are some of my all-time faves; things I go back to over and over. Well, except for World of Warcraft; I became a bit too addicted to it, so I deleted my level 60 character and cancelled my subscription. I digress…

Books. I love books. Books of all sorts. Fiction, non-fiction, it doesn’t really matter. If it has words in it I’ll read it more often than not. I’d be lying though, if I said I didn’t have any reading preferences! I particularly enjoy history, as well as fantasy and sci-fi. As implied above, I’ve also spent my fair share of hours browsing through foreign language books. You can see my small library of books here, to get a feel for what I enjoy reading. After having ran this blog for a few months, it’s worked out to where books are one of the things I write about a lot.

If you’ve got any questions, or just want to contact me privately, you can email me at: teeters AT gmail (dot) com.