This is a blog made mostly for my own sanity to let me put down various thoughts on being a new assistant professor who studies crime and deviance, as well as nuggets of wisdom about various academic-ey things. Hopefully some of this will be interesting and/or useful to others, but no guarantees. As of mid-2014, I haven't updated it in a while, mainly due to life getting in the way. (The painting is a favorite of mine, Feti's 'Portrait of a Scholar')