This is NPR the viaduct, the personal blog of Elliott Robinson. I’m still tweaking the format here.
I started writing the viaduct the summer before my senior year in college. In April 2011, I moved it to a new platform with the hope it will become more than just a blog. (Posts written before April 2011 may have an explosion of code and other things in them because I’m not going back to change all of those ”′s scattered about into closing quotation marks.)
As far as what I do, I am a journalist. I’m currently a copy editor at centralized copy desk in coastal North Carolina. I was drawn to copy editing while working at my college newspaper, The Captain’s Log. (Are you here because of the friction between The Captain’s Log at Christopher Newport University? Click on the link to the right of “About.” Or click this. Whatever.) Before that, I spent nearly six years working for two rival papers in central Virginia. Initially, I was a reporter at a small daily and then, to prove a point, I became managing editor of an even smaller thrice-weekly in the next town over. I’m now enjoying the ENC beaches but I’m currently 10 hours away from my college sweetheart.
As for the format of this blog, there’s no set theme to it. You’ll get anything from general musings about my life to me deciding to have an arbitrary theme for an entire month to short stories to horrible photography to my opinion on parts of the journalism industry. Updates have been sporadic lately because my life has been a bit boring as I’ve gotten older and physically farther from friends and family. It’s also less peppered with expletives. I guess that’s “maturity.” Additionally, I typically free write this so, despite me being an editor, there will be mistakes in spelling and grammar here. I don’t want stopping to find a perfect turn of phrase to kill the writing process.
As for the name the viaduct? When I was kicking around names to call this blog, I settled for what was once the header photo (obviously, a viaduct). As for EXIT 265C, it leads to my childhood home.
Any views expressed in this blog here at exit265c.com or in its initial home on Live Journal (especially the first 1400-odd entries) do not necessarily reflect my past, current or future views nor do they reflect the past, current or future views of anyone/any entity with whom/with which I am affiliated. All photos and other content on exit265c.com and on the aforementioned Live Journal (unless otherwise stated) ©2004-2012 Elliott Robinson.
Still want to know more? There are nearly 1600 entries as of early 2012. If that’s too much work, or you want some sort of response to a question, contact me at elliott [dot] robinson [at] exit265c [dot] com. I’m also on Twitter, obviously, @EXIT265C.
