RESURRECTION!

I made promises (to myself and others) to start blogging again with my new travels. However, I have been stumped with coming up with a new blog title that feels right. So, in order to stop procrastinating with it, I've decided just to go back to the old site. After all, now rather than recruiting foreigners, I'm looking to be recruited by them. Works just fine. As things get settled, when and if I find a job down here somewhere, maybe I'll then change the name. Be thinking on it for me...

AdvIntRec Post-Mortem

"Adventures in International Recruiting" has been dead and buried for some time now, but now it has been disinterred from the other site that I foolishly though that I would write at during grad school (free time - ha ha ha) and returned to its proper resting place, here. The posts will remain available for all who might stumble upon them to enjoy. I do plan to finally start a new blog. Unless plans change, it will be called "Our Man in Savannah" and I will begin writing new posts soon.

Uh, oops.

I disavow these claims that I was going to start a new blog. I'm going to try to return these posts to their previous location (Adventures in International Recruiting) for no other reason than so Mike's links from his blog will work again. Ah, the path to Hell...

Meanwhile, I WILL be starting a new blog, now that I'm out of grad school. Gotta do something to keep myself busy while I find a job.

Ditch the Car

More on my own decision to ditch my car later, but here is a good article I saw in Slate this morning about motorized alternatives...

Slate on motorcycles and scooters

New Name, New Posts

Adventures in Southern Urbanism

I finally thought of a new name for my blog, and no, it is not an oxymoron. Urbanism in the South may not be widespread, but it exists. I live in a wonderful example of it - Midtown, Atlanta. And for the past year, I have lived here without a car. To accomplish that without feeling any real inconvenience or discomfort I think proves that true urbanism does exist here. In fact, I have greatly enjoyed being car-free. I will expand on this theme in the future, along with many others.

Yes, my hiatus from blogging has been long, but I think that it has taken me that long to change gears and settle into my new mode of life enough that I now feel comfortable writing about it. After all, I was travelling for SCAD for nearly a year before I started this blog in the first place under its former name - Adventures in International Recruiting. I will leave those posts here, of course. In so many ways those experiences inform my current views on urbanism and led to my decision to return to school to earn my Masters of City and Regional Planning at Georgia Tech. That was Stage Two of my post-collegiate life. This is Stage Three. Stage One is for another time.

(I swear I'm going to finish that book one day...)

Damn, I'm slack...

OK, no I have not travelled any recently, but I did recently complete a submission for this year's ULI student urban design competition. The study area that it was based on was a neighborhood called the Cedars just south of downtown Dallas. I was so immersed in it for two solid weeks that I FEEL like I travelled there. So, at some point soon I will post our team's proposal. However, I'm not sure if anyone even reads this thing anymore. Ha.

Changes

OK, there are reasons that I have not posted recently. As of May 11th, I left the job that led me to create this blog. I feel that I can now "reveal" more about myself, though I think most readers are friends and family who know me already. The "J.C." stands for Jason Combs. Southville is Savannah, GA. The university I worked for was the Savannah College of Art and Design (www.scad.edu). I was there one week shy of three years. About a year ago I decided that it was time to take the next step and started making plans. I resolved that if I were to go back to grad school, it needed to happen soon. So, I am happy to say that I have been admitted to Georgia Tech's City and Regional Planning program, beginning August 20th. I have already semi-moved to Atlanta, as I found a summer position here (more on that later).

The subject matter and format of this blog will be changing. The title too. You'll know when I know. There will still be travel narratives, I hope, but they will be fewer and farther between. Instead, readers will be getting more of a taste of my daily life, and the issues that concern me, and that I think should concern everyone. Stay tuned!

Oh yeah, and I WILL eventually finish recounting the Balkan trip...